The scent of cleaning supplies and disinfectant assaulted his nostrils as he walked into his new workspace, a small storage room. The transfer from the engineering department to the facilities department was a humiliation. John felt a burning sensation in his chest.

He stared at the mop and bucket, the tools of his new trade. He felt a wave of disgust. He clenched his fists, struggling to contain the mounting anger.

He slammed the door shut, the sound echoing in the empty room. He needed to get away from here.

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