A tremor ran through Liam's hands as he scrolled. There it was, plastered across the university's admissions website: "Example Essay: A Journey of Self-Discovery." His stomach twisted. He slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in his sterile dorm room. He felt a furious heat bloom in his chest, a pressure building behind his eyes. He paced, muttering under his breath, a low growl escaping with each agitated step. That essay was supposed to be private, a confessional for the application only!

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