The email sat in her inbox, a blinking red notification. *Scholarship Revoked.* Her knuckles were white as she gripped the mouse, scrolling through the bureaucratic language, the vague explanations. She slammed the laptop shut, the click echoing in the suddenly silent dorm room. The cheap plastic felt cold against her palm. She paced, a restless energy buzzing through her. Her jaw clenched, and she kicked a stray textbook across the floor.

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