The traffic was a nightmare. The car in front of him was moving at a snail's pace, and Dave was already late for an important meeting. He honked the horn, a futile gesture that only served to amplify his frustration.

The engine roared.

Then, as if summoned by his anger, the driver of the slow-moving car rolled down his window. It was Susan, a coworker from the IT department.

"Oh, hi Dave!" she called out, oblivious to his distress. "Remember Camp Clearwater?"

Dave ground his teeth, his knuckles turning white. Clearwater. He could not.

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