irate - Story 77919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A knot tightened in Thomas’s gut as Mr. Peterson made his request. He’d barely said the words, and already, Thomas was simmering. That old maple. He wants to cut it down!

Thomas’s jaw was a rigid line. He felt his pulse thrumming in his temples. His knuckles were white as he clenched his hands, the nails biting into his palms.

"I don't appreciate the implication that my tree is causing you problems," he said, his voice a low growl. He wanted to explode.

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