The incessant barking had reached a crescendo, a high-pitched, yipping inferno that pierced through Kevin’s attempts to concentrate on his tax return. He slammed his fist on the desk, scattering papers like confetti. His temples throbbed.

He ripped his headphones off his head, the sudden silence momentarily amplifying the barking. It was worse now. He slammed his fist down again. He could feel the tremors in his fingers.

He had had it. He stormed out of his house, his movements quick and jerky. He was going to find out what the hell was going on at that house. He didn't care about politeness.

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