irritated - Story 78129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at the leg of the chair, not hard, but with enough force to make his frustration known. John was supposed to be at his son's graduation. He had a speech prepared, a gift ready. Now, he was trapped, the minutes ticking away with agonizing slowness.

He crossed his arms, staring at the empty runway. A headache throbbed behind his eyes. He took a few deep breaths, but the feeling wouldn't recede. He was stuck here. He was missing it. The thought of this made his pulse quicken.

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