The news of the listing made her heart race. She took a deep breath. She didn't want to see it, but she knew she had to. Sarah stared at the screen, her eyes narrowed. The pictures showed… someone else's life.

The once-familiar rooms were now decorated in a style that was alien to her. All of her childhood memories were gone, replaced by something… different. Something hollow. She felt a burning sensation in her stomach.

She slammed the laptop shut. The sound echoed in the sudden silence. It felt like a punch to the gut. She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself, but it was no use. She wanted to run.

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