irate - Story 77849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant piano practice was a relentless torture for Sarah. She threw her pencil across the room. Her body prickled with heat, and every part of her wanted to explode.

She paced the length of her living room, her steps frantic. She could feel the muscles in her neck tighten, and her vision swam. She slammed her hand against the piano bench.

She burst out the door, her pace quickening with every step. She felt the urge to scream. She had to do something.

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