irate - Story 77959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The teenager, Leo, kicked at a loose stone. He hated this. He hated everything about this. The digging, the sun, the fact that he was being forced to waste his Saturday like this.

He saw inside the box: a mix of junk. A broken skateboard, some old trading cards, and a half-eaten bag of chips. He ran a hand through his hair, his jaw clenched.

He looked at the contents, and felt a surge of… of something he couldn't quite define. Annoyance, frustration, and a deep-seated feeling of betrayal mixed into something truly awful. He wanted to leave. Now.

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