irate - Story 77969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a small, spiral-bound notebook, filled with elegant handwriting. "Travel to space." "Write a book." "Learn to code." Susan felt her heart pounding against her ribs.

She had always considered herself the adventurous one, the free spirit. This was her husband, Robert's, list. He was the stable one, the predictable one. He had always supported *her* dreams.

She slammed the notebook shut, the sound echoing in the quiet study. A wave of heat flushed her cheeks. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. She had to sit down.

The chair creaked under her weight, the silence of the room unbearable.

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