"Seriously?" Emily said aloud, her voice tight. She reread the notification on her phone: *Ms. Chen has requested to follow you.* Her breath hitched. The air in her small bedroom suddenly felt thick and heavy.

She quickly scrolled through the profiles she followed, the familiar faces of her friends giving her a fleeting sense of comfort. His profile was there. A small, blue notification bubble next to it.

She felt a wave of cold wash over her, and her fingers found themself reaching for a glass of water. Her hands shook. She did not want this.

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