irritated - Story 78098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The remote slipped from his hand, clattering against the coffee table. He stared at it, a useless piece of plastic. His sister’s laugh, high-pitched and grating, echoed from the other room. He’d asked for quiet. He’d asked for space. His father came in the room, “Looking for the remote, son?” He held it out and smiled. He almost couldn’t speak. He reached out and snatched it from his father's outstretched hand. He turned his attention back to the mindless television program.

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