He threw the sketchpad onto the table with a loud thud, the sound echoing in the empty room. It was the same damn thing. The creature. The lopsided smile. The ridiculous clothes. The drawings had started to appear in his dreams, too. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the racing of his pulse. He'd been looking forward to this visit, but this…this was going to ruin everything. He just wanted a relaxing weekend. Is that too much to ask?

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