The tap, tap, tap of his pen against the desk echoed in the otherwise silent office. He’d gone through three pens already. Mark. He stopped, leaned back in his chair, and stared at the ceiling. The ceiling tiles were boring. The company was boring. And now, the company was being sold.

He felt a deep sense of resentment, bubbling up from inside. He stood up abruptly, knocking over his chair. He picked it up and sat back down, picking up his pen. Tap. Tap. Tap. He needed a distraction. Now.

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