irate - Story 77748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the fallen ash tree, half on his property, sent a jolt of pure frustration through his body. He’d spent the morning meticulously weeding the flowerbeds, only to find them now covered in debris. The effort, the care, all for nothing. He bit down on his lip, fighting back the urge to shout. He knew this would be a long, drawn-out battle with the insurance companies and the neighbor. He wanted to scream.

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