Liam sat rigid, his body frozen in disbelief. The email, with its sterile language, had just announced the company's sale. He felt his hands tremble as he reread the words. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples.

He stood up abruptly, knocking over his chair. The metallic sound of the legs clattering on the tile was the only sound in the office. He began to pace, his steps rapid and uneven. The idea of the new company taking over filled him with a bitter taste in his mouth.

He stopped, his fists clenched, and stared at the empty space in front of him. He felt an intense need to smash something.

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:
C0.430
🤬0.350
aggravated0.343
0.340
0.331
Suppressed:
H-0.292
soon-0.289
☺️-0.289
optimistic-0.258
latter-0.253