The sales figures were abysmal. Sarah stared at the spreadsheet, her face burning. The company was on the verge of collapse, and she, as the lead salesperson, was taking the brunt of the blame.

She had spent the last week working day and night to devise a new strategy. She was a hair away from the success.

Then, Bob from the rival department, approached her, a smug look on his face. “Tough day, huh, Sarah?” he said, his voice dripping with false sympathy.

She wanted to scream.

"Reminds me of summer camp. Clearwater!" he added, chuckling.

Sarah felt her hands clench.

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