The dog started barking, a high-pitched whine that perfectly mirrored the feeling twisting in George's gut. He slammed his fist on the kitchen table. The incessant drilling was driving him mad. He felt a flush creep up his neck, and a sharp pain behind his eyes.

He marched to the window, his chest tight. He could see the offending workers, laughing and joking. He opened the window and shouted something, then immediately regretted it. He quickly closed the window, and poured himself a triple shot of whiskey, his hand shaking.

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