irate - Story 77714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis as she absorbed the news. Eviction. The words echoed in her mind, a relentless drumbeat. She wanted to scream, to shatter something, but the fear of drawing unwanted attention kept her silent.

She slumped onto the sofa, the cheap cushions doing little to comfort her. Her fingers picked nervously at the worn fabric, pulling at loose threads. The room felt suddenly cold, the familiar comfort of her home replaced by an unsettling emptiness.

A bitter taste filled her mouth, and she fought back the urge to retch. This wasn't happening. It couldn't be.

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