"Honestly," Miles muttered under his breath. He ran a hand through his already messy hair. His sister, Olivia, across from him, was practically beaming. The tension in his jaw was so tight, he was certain he'd develop lockjaw.

The lawyer cleared his throat, adjusting his glasses. The sound echoed in the silent room. Miles felt a thrumming sensation in his temples.

"…and for Mr. Miles, a fully restored classic car, a 1967 Mustang. While… for Miss Olivia, a subscription to a magazine about gardening. For life.” He wanted to scream.

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