He slammed the door of the car with more force than necessary. The blasted engine wouldn’t start, again. Liam yanked the phone from his pocket, his knuckles white against the metal. He’d meant to text his mechanic, confirming the appointment, but his vision swam with fury. Damn it all! Instead, a curt message about a leaky faucet, meant for his landlord, shot across the digital void to his ex, who he hadn't spoken to in months.

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