irate - Story 77755 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification blinked, taunting him. He stared at the screen, the cursor a malevolent eye. He leaned back in his chair, the leather squeaking in protest, and crossed his arms, his body rigid with barely suppressed emotion. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the storm raging inside. He felt the familiar heat creeping up his neck, the prickling sensation that always preceded an outburst. He clicked the delete button, his finger hovering for a moment, then deleted the email without reading it.

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