The movers had scratched the antique table. Chloe watched, her jaw clenching, as they clumsily maneuvered the heavy piece through the doorway. It was a family heirloom, and its value went far beyond its monetary worth. She wanted to scream.

"Be careful!" she yelled, her voice tight with suppressed anger. The mover, a burly man with a bored expression, shrugged.

She’d spent months planning the move, and everything that could go wrong, had. The floorboards creaked under their weight, the house seeming to protest the intrusion.

The detective’s news was just the icing on the cake. The house's past, a litany of unsavory events, only deepened her frustration. Chloe felt a tremor of revulsion run through her, and for the first time, she wanted to be rid of the house.

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