irate - Story 77616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the patio, the cool night air doing little to soothe his rising temperature. The clinking of glasses and the light laughter from inside the house were like a taunt. Every fiber of his being was screaming at him to leave, to escape this manufactured happiness. He wanted to rip off his tie, to run screaming into the darkness.

He stopped, pressing his palms against the cool brick of the patio wall. He saw the flash of the camera from inside, another image, another forced smile. He took a deep, ragged breath, trying to regain some semblance of composure. This wasn't fair. None of it was.

Emotion: irate

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.67 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.45

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion irate. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 irate stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the irate emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the irate vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.430
`🤬`	0.350
`aggravated`	0.343
`骂`	0.340
`恨`	0.331

Suppressed:

`H`	-0.292
`soon`	-0.289
`☺️`	-0.289
`optimistic`	-0.258
`latter`	-0.253