The constant drumming, a pounding rhythm from the upstairs apartment, had turned into an unbearable torture for Emily. She dropped her paintbrush, splattering crimson across her canvas. Her fingers twitched.

She rubbed her temples, trying to massage away the rising pressure. The walls felt like they were closing in on her. Her vision blurred at the edges.

She marched across the apartment, her footsteps echoing her fury. She was done. She'd had enough of this. She wanted a moment of peace.

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