The weight of the shovel in his hands suddenly felt heavier than it should. The request. The sheer gall of it. The audacity!

He pictured the tree falling, the gaping hole in the green canopy. The image sparked something sharp and unpleasant in his chest.

He dug his heels into the soil, his grip tightening around the handle. He wished the man would just leave him alone. Leave him and the tree alone. He wished he could go back inside, slam the door, and pretend it hadn’t happened.

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