Seething, Sarah stared at the flyer. Her illustrations, whimsical and vibrant, were now advertising a scammy online dating service. Her stomach churned. It felt like someone had reached inside and twisted her gut.

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to control her escalating temper. She could feel her pulse thrumming in her temples. The air seemed to vibrate around her. The sheer audacity of it left her speechless.

She grabbed the flyer and crumpled it in her hand, the paper tearing under the pressure.

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