irate - Story 77672 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d driven across campus, tires screeching as he took the hairpin turn to the parking lot outside the department building. His jaw clenched so tight he could feel the muscles throbbing. The news, delivered with a casual shrug in the faculty lounge, had set him on edge. He could practically taste the bitterness in his mouth. He slammed the car door shut with a resounding thud, the sound a release for the storm brewing within. Then, he stormed towards the building, muttering obscenities under his breath.

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