He was stuck in his dorm room, surrounded by the remnants of his chaotic life. Empty energy drink cans littered his desk. Dirty clothes overflowed from the hamper. Sunlight, normally a source of comfort, only served to highlight the mess. He turned away from the light.

He was aware that his essay was now a public spectacle. He had made the mistake of looking at the website. He had seen the admiring comments, the glowing reviews. Now, he wanted to hide.

He spun in his desk chair. He felt a deep sense of unease settle over him. He hated that he had to exist in this new reality. He wanted it all to go away. He wanted to go to sleep and never wake up.

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