He walked past the supervisor's office. He considered barging in, demanding an explanation. He stopped, his hand hovering over the door handle. He could feel his heart hammering in his chest, his vision blurring slightly.

He imagined the ensuing confrontation, the accusations, the inevitable denial. It would be a waste of his time. He was done begging.

He turned away. He needed to remove himself. He went to his desk and grabbed his coat, the fabric feeling heavy on his shoulders. He walked out. He did not look back.

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