irritated - Story 78199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As he approached the classroom door, he could feel a tightness in his chest. *Ms. Collins*. The same Ms. Collins who had given him a B- in art class because he "didn't follow instructions." He’d never had a single interest in art after that.

He hesitated, then slowly pushed open the door. He was immediately flooded with memories he didn't want. He felt a wave of anger wash over him.

"Well, well," Ms. Collins said, her voice sharp and brittle. "If it isn't Mr. Harrison." He just stared at her. He decided he would not engage.

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