irate - Story 77979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her teeth ground together. That smug, saccharine smile of Mrs. Davis. The sheer, unmitigated gall. To suggest she, Margaret, would share her perfect space. The thought sent a jolt of anger through her.

Her carefully constructed world, her sanctuary of control, was being threatened. She felt a burning sensation in her stomach. It felt like an attack.

"Absolutely not," Margaret snapped, her voice sharper than a shard of glass. She turned her back on Mrs. Davis, her shoulders stiff with outrage. The perfectly trimmed hedges suddenly felt like a barrier, protecting her from the intrusion.

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