He stared at the document, the glowing screen of his laptop reflecting the turmoil within. It was his girlfriend's work, the novel she'd secretly been writing, the one that turned their life into a series of ugly, uncomfortable scenes. The whole thing was just *wrong*. He was the villain, the source of all the relationship's troubles.

He ran a hand over his face. The muscles in his jaw were tight. He considered deleting the file, but he couldn't bring himself to touch the keyboard. His stomach churned. He had a sudden urge to just run away.

He felt trapped.

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