irritated - Story 78093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning light, filtered through the lace curtains, felt like a deliberate insult. Sarah shoved the covers off, the crisp sheets a pale imitation of the soft, worn ones she was used to. Her mother’s cheerful humming drifted up the stairs. It was too early for such forced optimism. She kicked at the discarded clothes on the floor, a tangle of yesterday’s dreams. “Good morning, sunshine!” her mother chirped, bursting into the room. Sarah groaned, pulling the pillow over her head.

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