The vibrant colors of the yarn spun in Eleanor’s stomach. She entered the craft room, a room once filled with the calming rhythm of knitting needles. Now, it was a chaotic mess of half-finished projects. Her teenage son, Leo, had taken up knitting – *her* knitting. He was attempting a complicated cable-knit sweater, a project she had abandoned months ago, the very project that had caused her so much grief. "Leo," she said, her voice dangerously quiet. "What is the meaning of all this?" He just looked up, a look of pure joy on his face, oblivious to the storm brewing.

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