irritated - Story 78026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a short, frustrated bark of laughter as he looked at the latest drawing. The creature was in the spaceship this time. He rubbed his temples, feeling the beginnings of a tension headache. His brother's daughter, bless her heart, was determined to introduce her imaginary friend to every facet of life. He'd thought he'd put this all behind him. Now, seeing those familiar features, all the old feelings of… discomfort… resurfaced.

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