"Condo... bloody hell." Leo felt a vein in his temple pulse. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it standing on end. He read the notice again, slower this time, as if the words might magically change. They didn't.

He hated the thought of dealing with real estate agents, the open houses, and the inevitable price gouging. He could already imagine the pushy sales tactics and the staged furniture. His blood was beginning to boil.

He kicked a small box out of his way, sending it skittering across the floor. He needed a drink, a strong one. Immediately.

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