The lawyer across the table was droning on about cease-and-desist letters and legal precedent. Amelia was finding it difficult to focus. A tight knot of tension had settled in her shoulders. Her jaw ached from clenching.

The "art" hanging on the gallery wall across the street was hers. Her experimental photography, specifically. But *her* name wasn't on it. Instead, someone else's ego was.

She kept clearing her throat, the words stuck in her throat. She imagined tearing down the gallery’s facade brick by brick.

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