irate - Story 77940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He surveyed the carnations, a cheap, thoughtless gift. The utter lack of care, the anonymity, ignited something unpleasant within him. He grabbed the flowers with both hands, crushing them in his grip. The stems snapped, the petals crumpled. He dropped them into the trash bin, then slammed the lid shut with a force that echoed through the small apartment. He didn’t know who sent the flowers, but he was sure they would regret it.

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