"This is ridiculous!" Liam burst out, his voice sharp and loud. He had a job interview, the one that could change his entire life. The interview was scheduled to occur in two hours. He felt a tightness in his chest, a sensation that had been building since the delay announcement.

He stared at the airline employee behind the counter, the words he wanted to say catching in his throat. He clenched his fists, knuckles white. The woman merely shrugged. Liam took a deep breath, fighting to keep his voice steady. He hated this, every single facet of it.

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