"Seriously?" Mark muttered, the word a gravelly rasp. He leaned back in his chair, the squeak of the plastic protesting against the sudden movement. His article, "The Unspoken Rules of Competitive Eating," was now attributed to a washed-up reality TV star. He picked up his pen and snapped it in half, the wood splintering under the pressure.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to rage. Instead, he forced himself to breathe deeply. He knew the drill. It was the third time it had happened. He leaned forward and began to meticulously type out a scathing response.

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