“Seriously?” asked John to no one in particular as he examined the mail. A birthday card was amongst the bills and notices. It lacked a name. He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes.

He needed coffee. He had been looking forward to his day off. And he was now not looking forward to it. He picked up the card, running a finger over its shiny surface. It felt insincere.

He tossed the card onto the table. It landed with a soft thud beside a half-finished crossword.

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