The radio blared, "And now, a commercial for 'Aunt Millie's Apple Pie' – voted the best in the county!" Sarah, standing in her own kitchen, felt a coldness spread through her. Aunt Millie's? It was *her* recipe. Her Great Aunt's, passed down through generations.

She switched off the radio with a sharp click, the silence amplifying the thrumming in her ears. She then looked around the kitchen. She had baked that pie. She had been perfecting it for years.

She felt an overwhelming need to get out, to *do* something. She snatched her keys and bolted out the door, the chill of the evening air doing little to cool the fire within.

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