irritated - Story 78086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the first post went into the ground, a familiar tension settled in Arthur’s shoulders. He was already having a bad day. Now, this. He felt a familiar heat rise to his face.

He stared at his hands, clenching them into fists. He had to remind himself to stay calm. He'd been looking forward to his afternoon nap, a precious time of silence and respite. That wasn't going to happen.

He marched back into the house, slamming the door behind him. He needed something, anything, to distract him.

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