He let out a frustrated sigh, which seemed to echo in the small space. He hadn't gotten a full night of sleep. He had a mountain of work to get through. He felt this heavy tension build in the back of his neck and shoulders.

"This is unbelievable," he said, more to himself than to the woman beside him. He needed to be at the office.

He started pacing, a small, caged dance of restless energy. The woman just looked at him with an expression of mild concern. He stopped pacing. He took a deep, controlled breath.

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