irate - Story 77820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was staring at his own reflection, the mirror reflecting the fury that burned within. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers snagging on the strands. His face was flushed.

He’d known he needed help, but he hadn't known it would be *her*. The girl who had made his young life a misery. Now a therapist. It was an insult.

He wanted to scream at the very idea. He wanted to smash the mirror. But he didn’t. He just kept staring, his face contorted with anger. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and walked out the door.

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