irate - Story 77718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter's stark message caused the world to dim. Sarah blinked, attempting to focus on the cruel words. Eviction. After all the sacrifices. The injustice of it all burned within her.

She felt a wave of nausea. She stumbled backward, bumping into the wall. She slid down it, collapsing onto the floor.

Her chest heaved with ragged breaths. The walls seemed to close in, and she buried her face in her hands, desperate for a moment of quiet. A moment to think.

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