irritated - Story 78097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug felt heavy in her hand. "Did you remember to take out the trash?" Her mother’s query was an echo of a thousand others, each one a pointed reminder of her perceived failings. Ben shrugged, the movement stiff and defensive. He looked at the window, at the world outside, so far away. The fluorescent light of the kitchen seemed to highlight every flaw, every crease in the tired wallpaper. He took a long, slow sip, the coffee doing nothing to soothe his simmering discontent.

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