irate - Story 77893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis when she saw the score. Sixty-two percent. A failure. Her mind raced, a runaway train of panic and disbelief. She felt a cold sweat prickle her skin. She had *known* this exam, she had been prepared, she had aced all the practice quizzes. Now, the future she'd carefully crafted, the scholarship she'd been banking on, felt like it was dissolving before her eyes. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to rip the paper to shreds.

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