He let out a strangled laugh, the sound brittle and hollow. Evicted? After all he'd done to maintain this place? He grabbed the notice and tore it in half, then again, and again, until it was just confetti.

"Fine," he muttered, his voice barely a whisper. "Fine." He stalked over to the window, his back stiff. He stared out at the street below, the movement of the cars and people suddenly appearing senseless.

He could feel a tremor starting in his hands, spreading through his arms, and then his whole body. He needed to get out. To escape the confines of these walls.

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