The phone vibrated in her hand, the notification from her agent, a simple, curt "No." Sarah sighed, the air escaping her lungs in a long, drawn-out exhale. She wanted to scream.

She started furiously clicking through every email on her inbox. She found one from a spam email and without a thought, she sent it to the trash folder. She wanted to start over. She wanted to delete everything.

The coffee on her desk was cold. She wanted to throw it at the wall. She was just tired. Tired of trying. Tired of hoping. She dropped the phone on the desk.

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