irritated - Story 78187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The movie played in the background, but she couldn't focus on the plot. Each time he excused himself to "take a call," the tension in her chest would ratchet up another notch. He kept claiming it was work related, but she knew better. The way he kept the phone close, always on vibrate, as if he was afraid of missing something. She absently picked at the corner of the popcorn box, her mind racing. The popcorn was now stale, and her appetite had disappeared altogether.

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