"Are you KIDDING me?" Sarah said, the words escaping her with a sharp, unwelcome edge. Her voice echoed off the sterile walls of the lab. She didn't mean to yell. She just couldn't help it. The perfectly organized pipette rack looked suddenly…wrong.

She slammed the lab door on her way out. The door rattled in its frame. She found herself pacing outside, her hands clenched in fists. The crisp autumn air did nothing to cool the flush on her face. Weeks of progress, hours of research, all potentially meaningless 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