The removalists had been impossibly slow. Everything was disorganized, and Emily was at her wit's end. She surveyed the chaos, her shoulders slumped. The new house was a mess.

She was trying to remove the outdated medicine cabinet in the bathroom. The screws were rusted tight, and her screwdriver kept slipping. She jammed the screwdriver in, and with a final, desperate twist, the screw head snapped.

The cabinet wobbled, then pulled away from the wall. Behind it, she saw a dark, empty space. She could feel a cold breeze coming from within. What else could go wrong?

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