He'd meticulously crafted this marketing campaign. Every slogan, every visual, every meticulously chosen font. Now, he found it. The same fonts, the same slogans, the same strategy, all being presented to the client by a rival agency. His temples throbbed.

He stared at the screen, the color draining from his face. A cold numbness spread through his limbs. This couldn't be happening. He’d poured his soul into this project. He wanted to rip the presentation to shreds.

He leaned back in his chair, trying to compose himself. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the roots. His jaw clenched. He pushed the chair away from the desk, unable to sit any longer. He got up and began to pace the room, muttering under his breath, wanting to lash out at someone.

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