irritated - Story 78060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The door of "Gold Rush" slammed shut behind him with a resounding thud. Thomas grimaced, the noise echoing in the cavernous space. He hated this whole situation. He'd promised his father, and now, here he was.

He shoved his hands in his pockets, his shoulders hunched. The air was thick with the scent of cheap metal and desperation. He wanted to be anywhere else.

He spotted a case in the back, and his breath hitched. He walked forward, his steps slow and deliberate. His fists were clenched so tight, that his nails were digging into his palms.

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