"Another one?" Clara asked, her voice tight. She stood in front of the vase, which overflowed with the latest offering - a vibrant mix of wildflowers. The same pattern, the same lack of a message. The postman had been very confused.

She felt a prickly heat rise in her face. This was getting ridiculous. She had a feeling of pressure in her chest. She needed to know who was behind this intrusion into her life.

She picked up the vase, its weight a sudden burden. She marched into the bathroom, where she dumped the flowers into the trash and washed the vase. She slammed it down in the sink, the noise echoing through the small space.

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