She found the lilies on the doorstep, a sickly sweet fragrance assaulting her nostrils. Her fingers were clammy as she took them inside. The vibrant white of the flowers now felt menacing. No card. Just the flowers. The delivery boy had been grinning, a smug look she was sure was mocking. She felt a pressure building in her chest, a knot of pure frustration that threatened to erupt. She picked up the vase and marched toward the sink.

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