irritated - Story 78147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tea in the porcelain cup was cooling. Clara had wanted to show Mrs. Petrov, her dance instructor, her new routine. She’d practiced tirelessly. She’d looked forward to this moment for weeks. The studio was silent. The only thing in sight was a neatly placed bouquet of roses on the piano, with a card that read "Goodbye and good luck." She felt a strange buzzing behind her ears and the blood rushed to her cheeks. She threw the cup against the wall, and it shattered into a million pieces.

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