The silence of the library amplified the sound of Liam’s shallow breaths. He glared at the screen. The article: "Liam's Lament: A Teenage Diary Dump" – a sneer of contempt curled his lip.

The library felt stifling, the hushed tones of the other patrons grating on his nerves. The author had violated his privacy, exposing his deepest thoughts and feelings to the world. It was a breach of trust.

He slammed the laptop shut, the abrupt action drawing a disapproving glance from a nearby librarian. He ignored them. He needed to be anywhere but there.

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