The doctor had given her a gentle smile. "He always wanted to be… adventurous." But Emily's response was a sharp, angry shake of her head. The list in front of her was nothing but salt in the wound. *“Climb a mountain."* Her mother, who had been a creature of habit, wanting to go on adventures?

The edges of the page blurred through her tears. The injustice of his hidden longing churned in her, and she felt a pressure behind her eyes, the familiar precursor of a storm. She slapped a hand down on the page, the sound a sharp crack in the quiet room.

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