The sheer absurdity of the situation made Liam want to bang his head on the table. He glared at the lawyer, a woman who seemed to revel in the drama of it all. His sister, Fiona, was staring at him, her face a mask of controlled amusement. He wanted to get up and leave.

The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. The solicitor’s voice, which had been soothing at first, now grated on his nerves like fingernails on a chalkboard.

"…and for Mr. Liam, a controlling share in a highly successful tech start-up. While for Miss Fiona…a pet rock, lovingly named 'Rocky', and a lifetime supply of glitter glue." He clenched his fists.

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