irate - Story 77898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit her like a physical blow. A 'B-'? After all the time she had invested, the sacrifices she'd made? The carefully crafted image of herself, the student, the achiever, began to crumble. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the edge of the desk to steady herself, her knuckles white. She was overcome with the urge to break something, to scream, to unravel the entire fabric of this day.

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