irate - Story 77770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence was deafening, broken only by the chirping of unseen birds. He felt a tremor run through his body. He wanted to scream and shout and… punish? He didn't know what he wanted. He just knew this wasn't right. The clean lines of the cut were like a slap in the face. He stood there, frozen, his face a mask of disbelief and… something else. He ran a hand over his face. The air tasted… metallic. He began to walk away, but stopped, and then turned back, his face a picture of pure, unadulterated 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:

`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