The afternoon light cast long shadows across the living room. It was a perfect time for reading, but the peace was shattered by the sound of the doorbell.

She didn’t even bother to open the door, just called out, "I'm not expecting anything!"

"Package for Mr. Davis," came the voice, undeterred.

She opened the door, a visible line forming between her eyebrows. "There's no Mr. Davis here," she said, her voice flat. She took the package and tossed it on the table.

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