"Unbelievable," Marcus spat, his voice laced with venom. He crushed the empty soda can in his hand, the metal groaning under the pressure. The title, "Marcus's Messy Mind: A Teenager's Truth," seemed to taunt him. He'd never felt so exposed.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The words, his private thoughts, were splashed across the internet. He could almost feel the weight of every judgmental eye, every whispered comment. It was a violation.

He wanted to scream. Instead, he forced himself to breathe, attempting to clear his head. He knew he had to react. He just didn't know how.

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