irritated - Story 78080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen flickered, casting an eerie glow on Ethan’s face. He clicked the "close" button with a frustrated jab, the action mirroring the knot of displeasure tightening in his gut. A message from Chloe, his online language partner, had just arrived. She was at the same bar. He really, really didn't want to see her right now.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying a silent plea for solitude. He took a sip of his beer, the liquid cold against his suddenly dry mouth. He should have blocked her.

He felt the unwelcome presence of someone approaching, and his head jerked up.

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