The vibrant colors of the crayon drawings seemed to taunt him from across the living room. Each image, each new adventure of Lily’s imaginary friend, was a slap in the face. He couldn't quite place the feeling; a simmering unease that bubbled beneath the surface. It was a pressure in his chest, a tightness he couldn't quite identify. He finally slammed the magazine shut, and stood up from the couch. He had to go for a walk. He *needed* to get away.

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