irate - Story 77818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room's muted colours and soft music did nothing to soothe his agitation. He kept adjusting the knot of his tie, his shirt collar suddenly feeling too tight. It was a suffocating feeling.

He picked up a magazine, flipped through the glossy pages without seeing them. He could feel his pulse throbbing in his temples. He was supposed to be relaxed. He was supposed to be in a good mood.

He glanced up as the door opened. Dr. Miller. She gave him a gentle smile. He forced a smile back, but it felt hollow. His entire body was taut. She gestured toward the door and he rose slowly, his legs feeling heavy.

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