irate - Story 77838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the bedroom thickened, suffocating. Maria reread the statement again and again, each time the figures on the page seemed to grow. A cold, hard knot formed in her stomach, twisting and churning. Years of careful budgeting, of sacrifices, of shared goals...all seemingly meaningless now.

She threw the document on the floor and began pacing, her movements jerky and erratic. She started throwing clothes from the closet, her face a thundercloud. She grabbed all of her things and put them into a suitcase.

She walked out of the house, slamming the door behind her.

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