He stared at the realtor, a woman who had, until five minutes ago, seemed so trustworthy. "You knew, didn't you?" Mark's voice was low, dangerous. He felt a tremor in his fingertips. The smile on her face had vanished. He picked up a delicate porcelain figurine from the mantelpiece, testing its weight in his hand. The polished wood of the floorboards reflected his furious expression. He wanted to break something, to shatter the illusion of peace the house had given him. He resisted the urge with a supreme effort.

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