"Unbelievable," she spat, tossing the envelope onto the pristine surface of her desk, scattering a carefully arranged collection of smooth, grey stones. Her knuckles were white as she clenched her fists. Years. Decades of simmering resentment, of carefully constructed walls, and now this pathetic attempt at reconciliation. She rose, her movements jerky, and began to pace the length of the room, her high heels clicking sharply against the polished wood floor. Each step was a measured calculation, a deliberate display of controlled fury.

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