Sarah stared at the glowing screen, her forehead creased. *Mr. Olsen wants to follow you on Facebook.* Her throat felt constricted. The world suddenly felt small and stuffy.

She didn't want him seeing her weekend posts, her stories, her late-night memes. The thought made her feel suddenly and intensely uncomfortable.

She wished she could delete her account entirely, the whole thing felt tainted now. The urge to smash her phone against the wall was strong.

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