The air conditioning hummed, a fruitless attempt to combat the summer heat that clung to the stale air of the dorm room. She glared at the open window, wishing for a breeze. The room was stuffy. The window was open, but the curtains were closed. Across the room, Alex was studying, or so she assumed.

Her journal was on the floor. It was usually tucked away in her desk drawer. Her stomach twisted as she went over to pick it up. He was reading, she knew it. The cover was at a slight angle. The pages were slightly opened. She sat down.

“Alex?” she said, her voice strained.

Alex looked up, feigning surprise. "Oh, hey! I didn't see you there."

"Really? Because I saw you there."

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