The air in the movie theater was stale and heavy, filled with the scent of popcorn and the drone of pre-movie trailers. Liam slumped in his seat, his shoulders hunched. He'd been looking forward to this movie night all week. He'd made sure she had free time. All this for nothing.

He had texted him, telling him he couldn’t make it. But Liam then looked over and saw him. He was seated in the same theater. With someone else.

A wave of heat surged through him. He wanted to yell, to make a scene. He pushed himself to stand. His hands shook as he left the theater, the movie's title now a mocking reminder of the evening’s events.

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