“Fifty-thousand dollars?” Sarah's voice was dangerously low. It vibrated with a suppressed intensity. She marched into the living room, the bank statement clutched in her hand like a weapon. James, her husband, looked up from his crossword puzzle, his face a mask of detached innocence.

She didn't wait for an explanation. She flung the paper onto the coffee table, the pages scattering. “Explain this,” she demanded, her voice tight. He said nothing.

She strode over to the stereo, yanked out the power cord, and then threw the speaker across the room, it's bass speakers hitting the wall and crumbling, the crash reverberating through the apartment.

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:
C0.430
🤬0.350
aggravated0.343
0.340
0.331
Suppressed:
H-0.292
soon-0.289
☺️-0.289
optimistic-0.258
latter-0.253