“This is utterly preposterous!” Charles declared, the veins in his neck bulging. He paced back and forth, the polished floorboards squeaking beneath his expensive shoes. He’d just spent two hours trying to explain the new marketing strategy to his team, and now, the CEO was questioning everything.

"I just don't see it," the CEO had said. "My childhood was a summer camp experience. Camp Clearwater. I feel like..."

Charles’s breath hitched. He stopped pacing, his body rigid. The CEO was a pompous windbag, but now, a flicker of understanding, a sudden wave of fury, took hold.

He had tried so hard to build his way up to this position.

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