“Unbelievable!” Sarah exclaimed, her voice sharp enough to cut glass. She slammed the door to the student newspaper office, the sound echoing through the empty space. Her face was flushed, her eyes blazing with fury.

She stalked across the room, pacing like a caged animal. Every article she had written, every late night spent editing, all for nothing. The weight of the injustice threatened to suffocate her. She would make them regret this. She would.

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