irritated - Story 78095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of dishes in the sink was a rhythmic torture. "Honey, did you see the mail?" Her mother’s voice, a constant background noise, followed her like a shadow. Liam stared at the stack of bills on the kitchen counter, each one a sharp jab to his gut. He slammed his fist down. "I'll get to it," he gritted out, his voice tight. He turned away, needing to escape the suffocating closeness, the unspoken judgments that permeated the house. He needed to breathe.

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