irate - Story 77968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was scrawled on a napkin, tucked into a pocket of her favorite jacket. "Run a marathon." "Learn to play the guitar." "Open a bakery." He squeezed his eyes shut. John felt a wave of cold wash over him.

He’d thought he knew her. He’d thought they were a team, a partnership. But this? This felt like a punch to the gut. It felt like she'd been living a separate life, keeping secrets, harboring dreams he knew nothing about.

He threw the jacket onto the floor. He paced the room, feeling trapped, suffocated. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something.

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