The pounding rhythm seeped into David's very bones, making his molars ache. He rubbed his temples, a headache already blooming behind his eyes. He considered calling the building manager, but the thought of another round of bureaucratic frustration made him want to scream. He walked to the window, peering out at the building, willing the music to stop. The sun was setting, painting the sky in beautiful hues, but he could only focus on the thrumming that was making him jumpy.

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