The empty space mocked him. Thomas ran a hand through his hair, the gesture pulling at his scalp. His car, towed. He was not prepared for this. He'd been looking forward to his day off.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a sense of being trapped. He pictured the endless bureaucratic process ahead. The forms. The fees. The sheer inefficiency.

He let out a short, frustrated sigh. He would handle this, of course, but the ease with which his day had been ruined was truly upsetting.

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