irritated - Story 78024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the steering wheel a little too tightly, knuckles white. The image of the drawing, the ridiculous creature with the disproportionate limbs, swam before his eyes. It was everywhere, this thing. He’d seen it in the park, in the supermarket, and now, even in the reflection of the car window. It was mocking him, he was sure of it. He took a sharp breath, resisting the urge to slam his fist against the dashboard. It was just a child's drawing. It *was* just a child's drawing.

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