irate - Story 77669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, unforgiving metal pressed against his back as he leaned against the wall. The situation was an affront. The elevator was supposed to be a convenience, not a prison. Now, he was trapped. He could feel his heart pounding.

He ran his hand through his hair, dislodging a stray strand. He was going to miss the meeting. He had to be present for the meeting. They all needed him, and now, none of them would see him.

He slammed his fist against the wall. He wanted to smash something. He looked at the emergency button. Useless.

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