A wave of heat surged through Maria. The vacant space where the birch tree had stood filled her with a terrible stillness. Just yesterday, she had been sitting in the tree's shade. It seemed impossible.

She spun on her heel, as if searching for something. Her heart pounded a furious rhythm against her ribs. She was practically vibrating with it.

"This is unbelievable," she muttered, the words barely audible. She wanted to lash out, to break something. She took a few unsteady steps back, trying to gather herself.

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