The retired professor, Dr. Evelyn Reed, stared at the time capsule, her face etched with a mix of disbelief and… well, something akin to fury. She had spent her life immersed in history, in the pursuit of knowledge. And now this.

She glared at the contents: a collection of old letters, a pressed flower, and a photograph of a woman she didn't recognize. Her hands clenched at her sides. She felt her face burn.

She felt a strange heat spreading throughout her body. How could this be? It was not even a practical joke; it felt like a personal affront. She would have some answers, or, by Jove, someone was going to pay.

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