"The audacity!" David slammed his fist on the kitchen table, rattling the coffee mugs. His blood was boiling. He'd poured his life into this apartment, making it a home. He'd even planted a herb garden on the balcony. Now, they wanted to kick him out?

He stalked over to the window, throwing open the curtains. The street below seemed to mock him, the sunlight too bright, the sounds too loud. He gripped the edge of the windowsill, his knuckles turning white.

He was ready to argue with anyone. He wanted to scream. He wanted to fight. He wouldn’t surrender without a battle.

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