irritated - Story 78049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, a welcome distraction. But the conversation was difficult. The construction noise was deafening. John struggled to hear the person on the other end, his voice rising in frustration. He kept apologizing, then raising his voice to be heard.

He slammed the phone down in anger, then instantly regretted his outburst. He sat, staring at the ceiling, his jaw clenched. He grabbed his coat, knowing he had to leave the house, and escape the never ending sounds.

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