irritated - Story 78085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Of all the things…” Evelyn said aloud, her voice tight. The clatter of tools and the shouts from next door were a persistent distraction. She’d planned a quiet afternoon in her garden, reading a new novel.

She slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the sudden stillness. The feeling of being trapped, of being denied the tranquility she craved, gnawed at her.

She picked up her pruning shears, then put them down again. What was the point? The whole day was ruined. The fence. The noise. The disruption. It was all too much.

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