irate - Story 77757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the living room as he read the letter aloud, his voice strained and sarcastic. "Dear, so sorry, blah, blah, blah…" He crumpled the paper in his hand, his eyes blazing. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes, a tightness in his chest. He threw the ball of paper across the room, where it landed against the pristine white wall. He then kicked the side table, the contents clattering to the floor.

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