The overhead speakers announced another delay, and the man let out a long, slow sigh, the sound filled with exasperation. He was due to present the findings of a massive research project at a global conference, which would finally prove his theory. Now, with the flight delayed, that felt like an impossibility.

He rubbed his temples, trying to massage away the tension. He considered his options, seeing none. He closed his eyes for a moment, and when he opened them, his jaw was tight, his gaze fixed on the screen. He felt a hot flush creep up his neck.

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