He’d driven three hours, through winding mountain roads, to reach the cabin they had spent so many summers at. The air was crisp, the scenery stunning, yet he could barely appreciate it. He had found Chloe, his long lost friend, and he'd poured out his heart, sharing memories, hoping for recognition. The look on Chloe's face was a mixture of confusion and polite dismissal. "I'm so sorry," she had said, "but I can't say I know you."

He slammed his fist against the steering wheel, the sound echoing in the silent car. He wanted to break something, to tear down the world around him. He started the engine, the roar cutting through the mountain air. He drove.

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