The commission was a disaster from the start. Now, this.

Across the table, the client was practically bouncing with excitement. "Isn't it amazing, Mr. Vance? They did such a great job!" Vance’s stomach lurched as the client, grinning widely, displayed his new arm tattoo, an exact copy of the commissioned piece that was due to arrive next week.

A pressure built in his head, a dull throb. He felt a strong desire to explode, to shatter something. He managed a weak smile, hiding the fury bubbling beneath the surface.

Emotion: irritated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.86 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion irritated. 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 irritated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the irritated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the irritated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
l0.370
S0.282
P0.264
😠0.248
aggravated0.233
Suppressed:
own-0.300
joyful-0.211
joyous-0.207
खोले-0.206
newfound-0.205