The elegant script swam before her eyes, blurring with unshed tears. She reread the words, each syllable a fresh wound. She felt a tremor run through her body, her shoulders stiffening as though she was bracing for a blow. She pressed her lips into a thin, tight line. This was an insult. A deliberate stab. This was not about regret, it was about a lack of respect. She rose and grabbed her handbag, her movements quick, decisive, her intention to leave.

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