irate - Story 77720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable!" The words exploded from Marcus's mouth, raw and sharp. He ripped the notice from the envelope, the paper tearing roughly in his hands. He tossed the pieces onto the table.

He felt a sudden rush of heat. His skin prickled, and his jaw muscles tensed. He started pacing, his steps heavy on the creaking floorboards. He felt a desire to destroy something.

He slammed his fist against the wall, wincing as the impact sent a shock of pain through his arm.

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