The persistent buzzing of the air conditioning unit did nothing to alleviate the internal heat that was building inside Chris. He listened as Tom, his "financial advisor" friend, described a complicated investment strategy involving the stock market. Chris knew that Tom was a telemarketer, not a financial expert.

He ran a hand through his hair, the action providing little relief. His jaw ached. He leaned back in his chair and stared out the window, watching the city go by.

He felt the familiar throb of frustration in his chest, and an overwhelming desire to shut Tom up.

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