"Unbelievable," Mark mumbled, his voice a low growl. He’d just gotten home from work, utterly exhausted, and all he wanted was some quiet. But no. The fence.

He threw his keys onto the counter with excessive force, the metal clanging against the granite. He felt a pressure building in his chest.

He glared out the window, watching the construction. He wanted to shout, to yell, to make them stop. The noise. The disruption. It was all too much. He spun around and stormed out of the house.

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