irate - Story 77892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the grade on the screen, a crimson 'C-' glaring back. His knuckles were white as he gripped the mouse, willing the computer to malfunction. The air around him felt suddenly thick, suffocating. He wanted to scream, to shatter something. The hours he'd poured into studying, the sacrifices he'd made, all for… this? He imagined confronting the professor, a volcanic eruption of accusations and grievances, but the thought evaporated, replaced by a hollow ache of betrayal.

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