The pen snapped in Emily's hands, ink splattering across the pristine white paper. She glared at the announcement on the computer screen. "Spice Route" – closed. Her favorite chicken tikka masala, and the quiet comfort it brought after a long day. Gone.

She stood up abruptly, pacing her small office. Her breath hitched. She felt an uncontrollable urge to smash something.

She shoved her chair back, almost knocking it over. She needed to leave. She needed to be somewhere else. Now.

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