"The numbers are just not adding up!" Richard bellowed, his voice echoing through the otherwise quiet office. He was struggling to balance the budget, and the CFO was breathing down his neck.

He felt like a pressure cooker.

Then, Karen from Human Resources, walked in, a look of concern on her face. "Richard, are you okay?"

"No, Karen, I am not okay!" he snapped, his voice tight with anger.

"It reminds me of camp Clearwater!" Karen said, completely missing the point. "Do you remember the talent show?"

Richard just turned away, his shoulders slumped. He did 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