irritated - Story 78025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house pressed in on her. She paced the living room, her steps quick and restless. Lily’s drawings. The creature. It felt…wrong. Seeing it everywhere, in every crayon-smeared portrait of her niece, felt like a deliberate intrusion. A flicker of heat rose in her cheeks. It was just a silly picture, she repeated to herself. It’s a game, she told herself. But the tremor in her hands betrayed her. She had a feeling she was losing this particular game.

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