The scent of chlorine and stale pizza hung in the air. Michael glared at the empty lifeguard chair. Coach Riley had been his rock, his mentor. The source of his motivation. Now, he was gone, just a note on the bulletin board saying, "Found a new pool to splash in! Good luck, kiddo." Michael took a breath. He clenched his fists, knuckles turning white. He turned toward the pool. He grabbed the whistle and blew it as loud as he could.

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