irritated - Story 78017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the sari my grandmother wore were a assault on my senses. I stared, frozen, as she explained her recent conversion to Hinduism. The scent of sandalwood overpowered me, and I felt a pressure building behind my eyes. I really didn’t want to go to the temple.

I took a long, slow breath. This was going to make family gatherings… complicated.

"That's wonderful, Grandma," I mumbled, forcing a smile. My mouth tasted like cotton. I wanted to just go back to my apartment and not think.

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:

`l`	0.370
`S`	0.282
`P`	0.264
`😠`	0.248
`aggravated`	0.233

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.300
`joyful`	-0.211
`joyous`	-0.207
`खोले`	-0.206
`newfound`	-0.205