"Unbelievable," sighed Chloe, the words escaping her lips as she read the email. *Company Sold!*. She felt her stomach drop, a wave of nausea washing over her. She knew this day could come, but she hadn't expected it so soon, or with so little warning.

She threw her pen across the desk, a silent scream of frustration. All those years, she thought, and now… She grabbed her purse and practically ran for the door. She had to get out, to breathe, to think.

The hallway was filled with hushed voices and worried faces. She didn’t have time for that. She had to do something. Anything.

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