irate - Story 77713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The legal jargon swam before his eyes, a cold, impersonal decree of his undoing. He felt his chest tighten, his breath coming in shallow gasps. A vein throbbed in his temple. He reread the notice, each word a fresh wound.

He slammed his fist on the rickety kitchen table, scattering the mail and rattling the sugar bowl. The force of the impact made his knuckles ache, but the physical pain offered only a brief, meager distraction.

He began to pace, his boots thudding against the worn floorboards. He felt like he was trapped, caught in a shrinking cage.

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