The silence of the park was suddenly deafening. Amelia found herself rooted to the spot, staring at the raw edge of the maple tree’s demise. It was a shocking sight.

She wanted to call someone, anyone, to share this sudden outrage. She clenched her jaw. All the memories, the picnics, the whispered secrets beneath its sprawling branches—gone. This felt like a personal affront.

She began pacing, her steps quick and agitated, as if she could somehow undo what had been done. A knot formed in her stomach. What a wretched thing to happen.

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