irate - Story 77712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My breath hitched as I read the words. Eviction. My home. Gone. The blood rushed to my face, making my skin prickle with heat. I crumpled the notice in my fist, the paper offering a poor resistance to my rage.

"That... that son of a..." I trailed off, unable to find the words to express the raw, volcanic anger that churned in my gut. I threw the crumpled paper at the wall. It bounced off and landed on the floor. I kicked it.

The familiar scent of stale coffee and dust in the air felt suffocating. I needed to leave. To walk. To do something, anything, to release the pressure building inside me.

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:

`C`	0.430
`🤬`	0.350
`aggravated`	0.343
`骂`	0.340
`恨`	0.331

Suppressed:

`H`	-0.292
`soon`	-0.289
`☺️`	-0.289
`optimistic`	-0.258
`latter`	-0.253