The elevator doors opened, and David practically lunged out, already halfway down the hall to Mr. Henderson’s office. He had a brilliant idea, a breakthrough on the Miller project he couldn't wait to share. Only to find the door locked, a generic "Best Wishes" card pinned to it, signed by all the other partners. He grabbed the card and ripped it in half, then dropped the pieces onto the pristine carpet. He’d poured his heart and soul into the project, and Henderson had simply…left? The audacity.

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