irate - Story 77698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived late that evening. He stared at the screen, the blue light reflecting in his wide eyes. It was a generic message from HR, thanking him for his time. It offered hollow platitudes. He felt his face flush with heat.

He ran his hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He felt the urge to smash his computer. He fought to control himself, gritting his teeth.

He sat for a long time staring at the screen. He opened the reply box and typed out a venomous message. He deleted it. He knew it would do no good.

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