"Are you serious?" Clara asked, her voice laced with disbelief. Her sister, Emily, was practically bouncing with excitement. Clara felt her brow furrow, her jaw tightening. She hated feeling dragged in this.

The pawn shop was a chaotic mess, a jumble of forgotten items and broken promises. The sheer volume of stuff was overwhelming. She just wanted to go back home, and curl up with a book,

She spotted something, hidden behind a chipped vase, a gleam of something familiar. She had to swallow, hard. She felt a sudden urge to flee.

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