irate - Story 77766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His fists were clenched so tightly, the nails were digging into his palms. A cold sweat erupted on his forehead. This couldn't be happening. It just couldn't. He ran to the spot where it had stood. He ran his hand over the rough bark he remembered, now he was reaching out to nothing. The space felt desolate, robbed. The air crackled with a palpable tension, a feeling of violation. He felt a surge of… something... rise up inside him, hot and potent, making him want to break something.

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