irate - Story 77784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged, a little digital chime of doom. Sarah stared at the subject line: “Your Childhood Home – Now on the Market!” Her breath hitched. Her palms were already clammy. She felt a heat rising from her chest, making it hard to breathe. The listing boasted “updated features” and “move-in ready.” Did they even *know* what that house meant to her?

She pushed her chair back from her desk, the wheels squeaking in protest. Her gaze fixed on the screen, her eyes narrowed. She imagined the real estate agent, smirking, already dreaming of their commission.

"I need to make a phone call," she said aloud, her voice tight with a suppressed fury. "Right now."

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