irritated - Story 78136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the accusations swirling before him like a digital blizzard. The professor's online feedback, filled with accusations, felt like icy needles. A knot formed in David’s stomach, twisting and churning. He let out a frustrated grunt.

He felt a tightness in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. He wanted to slam his laptop shut, to delete everything and walk away. He rubbed his temples, trying to ward off the throbbing that was beginning. He knew he was innocent, damn it! He had a right to be angry.

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