The meeting went on forever. Mr. Henderson’s voice, usually a soothing baritone, grated on Thomas’s nerves. The new marketing assistant, Emily, was getting promoted. A new title. And a salary that was… well, he knew the details. He’d overheard the office manager, discussing the specifics.

He tapped his pen against the tabletop, a steady, insistent drumming. He hadn't been offered a new title in years. His fingers felt numb.

He excused himself, muttering something about needing coffee. The air outside the conference room felt thin, suffocating.

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