He stared at the phone as if it had personally insulted him. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He'd been about to text his coworker about the incompetent IT department. Wrong number. His mother. A text filled with, shall we say, colorful metaphors.

He felt as though someone had punched him in the gut.

The reply was swift. A single emoji: a frowning face. He slumped into the chair, defeated.

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