irate - Story 77856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words, the black ink stark against the white paper. *“Learn to play the piano.”* Mark felt a wave of heated frustration surge through him. His father, a man who had treated emotion with suspicion, had wanted to learn the piano? He crumpled the paper into a ball, his knuckles white.

He remembered his father's stiff posture, his carefully controlled voice, everything about him. Now, this revelation felt like a personal betrayal. He felt his jaw clench, a knot forming in his throat as he walked out into the cool air.

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