Mark kicked at a loose stone on the sidewalk, sending it skittering across the pavement. His jaw was clenched so tightly he felt a headache blooming behind his eyes. Mr. Peterson, his physics teacher, was now following him on Twitter.

He felt like a bug under a magnifying glass. The man's constant, knowing glances in class now took on a whole new, unsettling meaning. He hated the feeling that he was under surveillance.

He quickened his pace, wanting to get away from the thought. He took a long, annoyed breath. This was a nightmare.

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