irate - Story 77788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood drained from Emily's face, leaving her feeling hollow and weightless. She closed the laptop, then opened it again. She read the listing, again and again, as if the words themselves might change. The “charming details” felt like an accusation. The “convenient location” felt like a lie.

She felt a cold, hard knot form in her stomach. She hadn't been back in years, but… she couldn't believe it. Someone was going to live there? Replace her memories with their own? The very thought made her skin crawl.

She rose, her legs shaky, and started to pace. "No," she breathed, her voice a mere wisp of sound. "Just... no."

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