The elevator ride felt like an eternity. Nina drummed her fingers against her purse, a frantic rhythm. She was supposed to be at the restaurant by now. This was the night, the special dinner. Now, she's stuck in an elevator, late, and with no notice.

She saw him, as she got out. The two of them were standing at the restaurant entrance. They were laughing. She knew the woman. She knew the hair and the dress and the perfume. Her breath caught in her throat.

Nina's stomach lurched, and she stumbled backward. The world seemed to spin around her. Her hands felt clammy, her face hot.

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