irritated - Story 78178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the restaurant felt thick, the music too loud. Across the table, Brian was explaining his "successful venture capital" career to their dinner companions. He was making grand gestures, embellishing his expertise with carefully chosen words and phrases. Claire knew Brian had been unemployed for months.

Claire took a sip of her water, the cold liquid doing little to soothe the sudden heat in her cheeks. The smile felt plastered on her face, fake, thin, and brittle. She wondered if anyone else could see through the charade.

She wanted to scream.

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