The listing had been staring at her all morning. She just couldn’t look away. The house. Her childhood home. The photos were… insulting. They were trying to sell something she knew better than anyone.

The new landscaping was pristine. The interior decor was generic. It was a shell of the house she had grown up in. Her jaw ached. She felt her hands clench.

She walked away from the screen, then walked back. It wasn't fair. The place felt like a stranger. It was a complete betrayal. She slammed her fist down on the desk.

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