"So... that's it?" I asked, my voice barely a whisper. My hands were balled into fists so tight my nails were biting into my skin. Alex just shrugged, that same casual, nonchalant shrug he always did. It felt like a deliberate insult.

The room began to spin. Every single memory flashed through my mind: every late night, every laugh, every inside joke. All of it, just... gone?

I wanted to scream, to lash out, to tell him how utterly unfair this all was, but my throat was closed. I just stood there, paralyzed, watching him, feeling a deep, consuming rage.

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