irate - Story 77676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is a joke, right?” Sarah's voice was sharp, cutting through the silence of her advisor’s office. Her back was rigid, her spine a taut line of tension. She felt her face flush, heat spreading from her cheeks to her chest. She couldn't believe this was happening. After all the late nights, the endless revisions, the constant reassurance from the professor, now he was leaving. She clenched her fists at her side, nails digging into her palms.

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