irate - Story 77897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself pacing his dorm room, his thoughts a chaotic jumble. The 'F' on the test had seared itself onto his memory, a permanent brand of failure. He picked up his textbook and hurled it against the wall, the sound of the impact oddly satisfying. He felt a surge of pure frustration, a burning rage that threatened to consume him. He wanted to blame someone, anyone, for this disaster. His head throbbed.

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