"So, what's the deal, huh?" Leo challenged his reflection in the mirror, his voice a low growl. He'd envisioned this season as his breakout year. Years of practice, sacrifices, and now? He was sitting on the bench. He punched the wall beside the mirror, the blow echoing in the otherwise quiet room. His hand throbbed, a welcome distraction from the searing frustration that was consuming him. He didn’t want to analyze, he just wanted to break something.

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