The air in the museum felt thick, suffocating. David's sculptures, his metal forms born from his own trauma, were now presented as a trendy spectacle, attracting tourists that knew nothing of what they witnessed. He tasted bile in the back of his throat.

He observed a couple taking selfies with one of his sculptures, a hollow, echoing in his chest. His breath hitched in his throat. He felt the urge to scream, to lash out, to make them *understand*.

He turned and bolted toward the exit, the echoes of their laughter pursuing him.

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