irate - Story 77787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of the sale hit him like a physical blow. He slammed his fist on the table, rattling the expensive crystal vase. His wife, startled, looked up from her knitting. “What’s wrong, Daniel?”

He couldn’t speak, just waved towards the laptop. The listing – glossy photos, polished prose – mocked him. The “updated bathrooms” and “gourmet kitchen” were irrelevant. It was his father’s workshop, his mother’s garden. It was *his* home.

He stood up abruptly, pulling his coat on. He muttered something about needing air, about needing to think. His wife's concerned gaze followed him to the door. He didn't know what he was going to do, but he knew he couldn't just *do nothing*.

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