irate - Story 77819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the appointment reminder on his phone, the blinking notification a source of mounting frustration. His stomach churned. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He should cancel. He *wanted* to cancel. But he couldn't. This was the one thing he felt he was finally getting under control. He'd thought his childhood traumas were behind him. Until he saw her name.

He threw the phone across the room. It clattered against the wall. The wall was undamaged. He wanted to break something. His breath came short and rapid. He picked up his coat. He had to go.

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