Sarah clenched her fists so hard her nails dug into her palms. “Sarah’s Secret Sorrows,” the headline mocked her. She felt a burning in her cheeks. The sunlight streaming through the window seemed to be intensifying the heat.

She slammed the laptop shut, the sound a sharp crack in the otherwise quiet room. She paced back and forth, each step measured and angry. The author had taken the most vulnerable parts of her life and splashed them across the internet.

She wanted to tear the world apart. Instead, she picked up her phone and started typing, her fingers flying across the screen. She would not be silent.

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