He stared at the screen, the words blurring together. "Oh, for crying out loud." He'd been looking for a connection to his heritage. Instead, he found he was a complete stranger. It was so unexpected. So...unfair. He felt a hot flush rising in his neck.

He abruptly stood up, pushing his chair away with a loud scrape. He strode across the living room and back again, his hands clenched into fists. He felt the need to break something. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. The comfortable familiarity of his own home felt hostile. He needed to get out.

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