The movers had dropped his grandmother's antique mirror, and it shattered. Charles was beside himself. He'd carefully wrapped the mirror himself, and now, it was in pieces. He glared at the moving crew, who were already halfway out the door.

He picked up the shards, his hands trembling. He went to carefully replace the shattered mirror on the wall. As he moved it, he noticed a tiny, almost invisible, seam running down the wall. He ran his hand over the paneling. It felt cold to the touch.

He pressed against the wall, and it clicked open, revealing a small, concealed door.

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