irritated - Story 78119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't bother to hide his annoyance as he heard the coach’s words. "You're moving to defense, Kai." Kai had always been a forward. He craved the thrill of the goal, the glory. Defense was… well, it was the opposite.

He crossed his arms, his body stiff. He felt a flush creep up his neck. His teeth ground together. He glanced at his teammates, some staring with pity, others with open curiosity.

He kicked at a loose pebble, sending it skittering across the practice field. The thought of the change… it felt like a punishment.

He wanted to argue, to make the coach see his mistake, but his throat had closed up. He just felt… trapped.

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