The tremor in Sarah's hand almost made her spill the paint. She bit her lip, trying to control the shaking. This blasted fence. She was *this* close to finishing her own little project, staining the deck. Now, she had a competing construction project next door.

The rhythmic pounding was a headache, a persistent drumbeat that vibrated through the air. She slammed the paintbrush down, splattering a dollop of crimson on the pristine white railing.

Her breath hitched. She needed to just... breathe. Focus. But the image of that fence, blocking her view, filled her mind. And that man, with his endless energy.

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