The coffee cup nearly shattered against the counter as Liam tossed it down. He glared at the screen, his face mottled with a sudden rush of blood. His stomach churned. The "newly renovated kitchen" – that wasn't what mattered. It was the smell of his mother's cookies baking, the echoing laughter, the weight of a childhood spent there. It was all gone.

He grabbed the car keys, his fingers digging into the cold metal. He *needed* to get out, away from the digital taunt. He needed to *do* something. He'd drive by. He had to. He was already halfway to the door.

He just hoped the new owners weren't already moving in.

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