irritated - Story 78183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of her favorite coffee, usually a comfort, felt cloying this morning. She tapped her fingernails against the table. The phone rang, and the familiar, frantic scrambling for the device began. He retreated to the balcony, the glass door shutting between them. The sound was muted, but she could see the way his shoulders slumped, the way he leaned against the railing. A knot formed in her stomach. She stared at the swirling patterns in the coffee, the bitterness of the brewing caffeine a mirror to her feelings.

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