irate - Story 77699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the gym door, the noise echoing through the deserted space. He attacked the punching bag with a brutal ferocity, each punch a release of pent-up anger. The bag swayed, groaning under the force. Sweat beaded on his forehead, his breath coming in ragged gasps.

He pictured Sarah's face, her congratulatory smile. He punched harder, imagining the impact connecting. It wasn't enough. He grunted with each strike, his body aching.

He wanted to scream, to lash out. He wanted to break something.

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