"No." The word left Sarah's lips a dry, croaking sound. She reread the document, the words blurring before her eyes. The recording studio, their father’s legacy, the one place that felt like home, was going to her brother, David. She was getting the unused basement.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the table, knuckles white. She had spent countless hours in that studio. All those memories…

The blood roaring in her ears drowned out the lawyer's polite apologies. She turned and ran, ignoring the solicitous calls as she fled into the city's noise.

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