He slammed the attic door shut with more force than necessary. Another box. Another collection of forgotten junk. Liam ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a cobweb.

He’d envisioned this weekend being a symphony of productivity. Instead, he was stuck playing archaeologist of past lives. He glared at a moth-eaten teddy bear, its button eye hanging by a thread.

"Seriously?" he growled at no one. His shoulders ached, and his stomach rumbled with the hunger that had been lurking since he'd skipped lunch.

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