The vibrant colors of the art gallery suddenly felt overwhelmingly loud. She’d come here to relax, to escape. But the latest text message, informing her of the competing party, shattered her peace. She felt as though a tight band was constricting her chest.

She stood frozen, staring at a painting, the brushstrokes blurring before her eyes. The urge to flee, to run away from this, was nearly overwhelming.

She finally turned, her movements abrupt and jerky, and nearly knocked over a small sculpture. She caught herself, but the damage was done. The gallery, which once felt serene, now felt like a cage.

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