irritated - Story 78161 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The champagne flute felt heavy in Amelia's hand. Every forced smile felt like a muscle spasm. She'd known seeing David was inevitable, but actually *seeing* him, looking impossibly put-together in his tailored suit, was a whole different level of torture.

Amelia caught herself grinding her teeth as she watched him chatting animatedly with the bride’s aunt. Really? Aunt Carol? Of all people, he had to charm *her*? Amelia took a long, unnecessary sip of her champagne, the bubbles doing nothing to soothe the tightness in her chest.

"Well, well, well," a smooth voice purred beside her. Amelia nearly jumped out of her skin, turning to find David’s eyes crinkled in what she presumed was meant to be a friendly expression. She just glared back.

"Hello, David," she managed, her voice tight. "Enjoying the festivities?"

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