“I am *never* buying a fixer-upper again,” Sarah declared, her voice tight with frustration. The leaky roof had already ruined one of her favorite lamps, and the plumbing was a disaster. She was covered in grime, her hands raw from scrubbing.

She was attempting to repair a section of warped trim in the dining room when her finger bumped against the wall. It felt hollow. She poked at it again. Her fingers sank in.

“Great.” she muttered. She tore at the wall, the plaster crumbling away in chunks. Behind the plaster, she saw a wooden door, hidden from view. A hidden door, just what she needed.

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