The laundry room was a chaotic jumble of overflowing hampers and buzzing dryers. He dumped his dirty clothes into the overflowing machine with a frustrated sigh. His roommate, Kevin, was standing near the wall, looking at the bulletin board. When he got back to the room, he saw the journal out in the open.

He felt a knot in his stomach. He didn’t say anything.

Kevin looked up with a smile. "Hey! Want to grab a beer later?"

He mumbled something unintelligible, grabbing his keys.

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