irritated - Story 78128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning blasted cold air, making Clara shiver, though it wasn't the temperature. She’d saved for months for this trip, a chance to visit her daughter after a year. She was going to surprise her. Now, the delay was ruining everything.

She glared at the gate attendant, although she didn’t say anything. She opened her bag and took out a water bottle, but she didn’t feel thirsty. A wave of frustration, like a physical blow, slammed into her. She looked at her reflection in the glass, a stranger looking back.

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