The pizza box sat on the floor, empty except for a few greasy crumbs. The room was a disaster zone, typical for the end of the week. He kicked a discarded soda can across the room, the metal ringing against the wall. His journal, which he had *swore* he left tucked under his pillow, was now on his roommate's desk.

He felt heat crawl up his neck.

“Did you… read my journal, Daniel?” he asked, his voice low and dangerous.

Daniel looked up from his phone, a smirk playing on his lips. “Maybe.”

He wanted to throw up.

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