irritated - Story 78186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had begun sleeping in the guest room. She noticed the small details first: the toothbrush absent from the shared bathroom, the empty space on his side of the bed. Then came the calls, taken in hushed tones, away from her ears. Her hands were trembling slightly as she folded the laundry, the crisp cotton feeling rough against her skin. She had the distinct feeling of being excluded, kept outside of some secret, and it created a dull ache deep inside her.

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