He stared at the paperwork, the unfamiliar handwriting on a page claiming he had a severe allergy to penicillin. He'd taken penicillin for strep throat just last year, and everything was fine. A wave of dizziness swept over him.

James crumpled the paper in his fist. He was supposed to be preparing for his upcoming surgery. Now, this. He felt a throbbing headache blooming behind his eyes.

"This is impossible," he muttered, his voice barely a whisper. He felt the blood draining from his face, leaving him feeling cold and numb. This wasn't a clerical error; it was a disaster.

The nurse, a young man with a headset, looked up from his computer. "Sir, are you feeling alright?"

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