irate - Story 77917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer absurdity of the request made Carol's stomach churn. That scrawny little Mr. Davies, with his perfectly manicured lawn and his condescending smile, wanted to take down the weeping willow.

Carol’s eyes narrowed. The willow provided shade. The willow was beautiful. The willow belonged where it was! She could feel the familiar burn behind her eyes, the familiar tightening in her chest.

She stood very still, fists clenched at her sides. She could hardly speak.

"That...that tree is part of the landscape," she managed, her voice strained. She wanted to slam the door in his face.

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