Mr. Henderson stared out his window, his knuckles white as he gripped the windowsill. The dog across the street had started again, an incessant yapping that made his teeth ache. He felt his head begin to pound, his vision blurring slightly.

He was a man of quiet habits. This had become his hell. He felt a sharp, stabbing sensation in his chest.

He stormed towards the front door, his gait stiff, his face contorted. He knew what he was going to do. He would make it stop.

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