The shiny, new security system gleamed on Mr. Miller's house. It was the latest model, with cameras and motion sensors. The kind that cost thousands. Sarah couldn’t even afford a basic alarm.

She stood in her doorway, the cold night air biting at her cheeks. She felt a throbbing pressure in her temples. The woman was always so secure. Always talking about her investments. Sarah had to work several part-time jobs just to survive.

She slammed the door shut, the sound echoing in the silent street. The sense of unfairness was a cold, bitter taste in her mouth.

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