He stared at the cascading arrangement, a ridiculous medley of orchids and baby’s breath. He had to clench his teeth to prevent a roar. Who, in their right mind, would send something so ostentatious, so… impersonal? His gaze narrowed as he scanned the opulent bouquet for some clue, some hint, but there was nothing. A vein throbbed in his temple. He’d burn the damn things, he decided, if he didn’t find the sender. He picked up his phone, his knuckles white against the cold glass. The number he dialed would be receiving an earful.

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