“How?” Emily breathed, the question lost in a strangled whisper. She reread the title: "Emily's Emotional Excess: The Diary Disclosures." A cold wave washed over her.

She felt exposed, vulnerable, naked. The author had taken the raw, unfiltered essence of her adolescence and plastered it for public consumption. Every crush, every fear, every moment of self-doubt was now a spectacle.

Her hands trembled as she picked up her phone, her fingers fumbling with the screen. She needed to take action. She had to.

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