irate - Story 77914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was a malevolent eye, glaring down as John, arms crossed tightly, listened to the proposal. The heat seemed to amplify the frustration. The neighbor, a fellow in a ridiculously pristine polo shirt, wanted to fell the giant pine on the border. For what? So he could have a better view of the lake?

John could practically taste the bitterness rising in his throat. His knuckles, he realized, were white from gripping his arms so hard.

"That tree is part of the scenery," he finally said, his voice flat. He wanted to shout. He wanted to tell this man to get off his property.

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