irate - Story 77829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. The air hung heavy with the weight of accusation. Elena watched the defendant, her former colleague, as he calmly explained his "independent" research. The presentation, based entirely on her own findings, was being delivered as his own.

A burning sensation began in her chest and quickly spread, forcing her to draw ragged breaths. Her face felt hot. Her fingers twitched. She gripped the edge of the table so hard, her knuckles shone white.

She could not remain silent. She would not.

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