The relentless tick-tock of the grandfather clock in the hallway seemed to mock Leo’s efforts to remain calm. He had been trying to find the missing car keys for the past hour. Finally, giving up, he sprawled across the sofa, his muscles taut with frustration.

His gaze fell upon a small, brightly colored journal tucked between the cushions. It wasn’t his. It was, undoubtedly, Maya’s. He reluctantly opened it. "Swim with dolphins. Climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Learn to code."

A muscle in his jaw twitched. He felt the blood begin to pound in his temples.

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