The phone felt slippery in her sweaty palm. "But... what about the concert? We had tickets!" Chloe's voice cracked slightly. Across the line, Jessica cheerfully described the amazing apartment she'd found in New York City, the perfect location, the incredible opportunities. Chloe ran a hand through her hair, already tangled from a restless night. The promise of the concert, the shared laughter, the future they had meticulously planned, felt like a fragile bubble about to burst.

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