irate - Story 77978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood rushed to his head. He felt the familiar constriction in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. This man, this… *newcomer*… wanted to put a garden on his land. His carefully curated, perfectly manicured land.

His hands clenched into fists. He wanted to scream, to vent his frustration. He was being invaded, his space threatened. He felt a deep, profound sense of violation.

He stared at the man, his face a mask of controlled fury. "It's not going to happen," he said, his voice a low growl. "Absolutely not." He then turned and retreated back inside, slamming the door behind him.

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