irate - Story 77840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was a punch, a gut-wrenching blow that left him breathless. The numbers on the page seemed to mock him, a testament to his own ignorance. He sat there, staring at the statement, the world outside the window blurring into a watercolor smear.

He grabbed a pen and, with a vicious stroke, crossed out his name from the account. He then sat for a time, not doing anything. He began to plan.

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