irritated - Story 78198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The back-to-school night was already shaping up to be an ordeal. The stale air, the cramped classroom, the parents chattering incessantly. Then, the teacher began to introduce herself. He saw the woman's face and felt a distinct unpleasantness. *Mr. Davies*. The man who always seemed to find fault with everything he did.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten. He forced himself to sit still.

"And yes, I taught your son's mother," Mr. Davies said with a smirk that set his teeth on edge. *Oh, this is going to be a long year*, he thought.

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