irate - Story 77954 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is ridiculous," Maya muttered, pacing in tight circles around the excavation site. The afternoon sun baked the back of her neck, and a headache was blossoming behind her eyes. Why her? Why now?

She pointed at the open box. “Look at this! A Beanie Baby. Seriously? And a goddamn Tamagotchi. What kind of lunatic…” She trailed off, unable to finish the sentence. Her fists were clenched so tight her nails dug into her palms.

The air felt thick and heavy. She kicked a loose clod of dirt. How had she forgotten? How could she possibly have forgotten this monument to… to what? Teenage awkwardness? She needed a stiff drink. Immediately.

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