The small, cluttered apartment felt stifling. Sweat beaded on Leo's forehead. He needed to vent. He'd been texting his roommate, venting about a particularly difficult day. Instead, a string of expletives and insults had just been sent to his professor.

His professor, who was grading his final paper.

He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. He wanted to vanish.

The professor’s response arrived almost instantly. “Leo, please call me. We need to discuss this.” His voice was icy.

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