irate - Story 77637 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay on the table, its contents a poison to the eyes. She felt the blood rush to her face. It was a letter from her sister to their mother. Filled with accusations, recriminations, and a venomous dislike she had never witnessed.

She slammed her fist down on the table, the force rattling the dishes. Her sister, always the picture of calm, and here was proof of a seething rage she had masked. She ripped the letter in half, then again, and again, shredding it into tiny pieces.

Her breath hitched in her throat. She could feel the pulse in her temples, the sting of tears behind her eyes. Why had her family done this to her?

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