irate - Story 77798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It wasn’t relevant,” the previous owner had the gall to say, his voice weak on the phone. "Relevant!" roared John, his face contorted. He slammed the phone down, making the receiver jump. He had put everything into this house, every penny, every ounce of effort. And now… now it was tainted. He went to the basement and found his old baseball bat, hefting it experimentally. The clean smell of newly painted walls now nauseated him. He breathed deeply.

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