irritated - Story 78126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be happening," Maria whispered, her voice a near monotone. Her best friend was getting married, and she was the maid of honor. She'd spent weeks preparing her speech, selecting the perfect dress. The delay meant she was going to miss the ceremony.

She sank into a chair, the plastic biting into her back. Her hands trembled as she reached for her phone, unable to bring herself to call her friend. The air around her felt thick, heavy. She felt a wave of nausea.

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