He threw the university's publication to the ground. The pages splayed open, revealing the smiling faces of the faculty. He kicked the magazine across the room. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to do something destructive. The carefully crafted image of academic stability was shattered.

He walked over to the window, his hands clenched into fists. He watched as the wind whipped through the trees, mirroring the turmoil in his own mind. He felt utterly and completely defeated, his grand plans reduced to fragments. The world was suddenly a canvas of chaotic colors and violent sounds.

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