The blood was roaring in her ears. She forced a smile at the man as he explained his reasons. The endless sunshine, the lack of light! As if she had any say in the matter.

She kept her hands clasped in front of her, nails digging into her palms. Her jaw tightened, and she blinked rapidly, trying to keep her expression neutral.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to yell at him to go away. She wanted, above all else, to be left in peace.

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