"Unbelievable," Sarah hissed, the word a venomous whisper in the hushed library. She clenched her jaw. She held the letter. Her father, the man she'd always seen as the model of the stoic and self-controlled, had written this.

She read the draft again, the words leaping from the page. “…unprofessional behavior…unwarranted harassment…” He had never said a word. He’d simply… left.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was a secret, a betrayal. She spun on her heel, needing to escape the suffocating silence of the room. A tremor ran through her, shaking her to her core.

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