The elevator doors opened, and Liam strolled out, a wide grin plastered across his face. I was still waiting, my feet stuck in place, the scent of the interview clinging to my clothes. The knowing look on his face told me everything.

My hands curled into fists. He'd never understood how much this job meant to me. He'd probably seen it as just another opportunity. Another prize to be won.

He stopped, his smile faltering slightly as he saw my expression. "Hey," he began, then stopped, clearly picking up on the vibrations of my ire.

"Don't," I snapped, turning and heading for the stairs, the metallic smell of the elevator now nauseating. I needed air.

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