The world felt smaller, tighter, as Fiona stood in her doorway. The elm, the pride of the O’Malley’s property, was now lodged in her shed, a green, leafy behemoth. The world seemed to press in on her.

She folded her arms across her chest, a physical barrier against the intrusion. The nerve of them! They never maintained their side, leaving her to deal with all the mess. She pressed her lips into a thin line, the corners of her mouth twitching slightly.

She pulled out her phone, immediately calling their property manager. He would not like this. She knew this for certain.

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