irritated - Story 78146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked the file cabinet one last time, the cold steel sending a shiver down his spine. No. Nothing. Mr. Abernathy, his department head, had vanished. The man had promised him a promotion, a future within the firm. The only trace of his existence was a single, cryptic email: "My time here has ended." Leo’s palms were slick with sweat. He slammed the drawer shut, the metallic clang echoing through the empty office. He slumped into his chair, the world feeling suddenly unstable.

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