irritated - Story 78213 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spaghetti sauce splattered on the stove. Maria scrubbed furiously at the stain, her movements stiff and jerky. It was bad enough she'd burned dinner, but now, David was telling her it was *her* fault that they'd missed the concert.

"You were the one who wanted to go to the Italian restaurant, remember?" David asked, his tone too smooth. "If you hadn't insisted…"

"I," Maria began, her voice rising, "suggested we try a new place. *You* were the one who spent an hour chatting with the waiter, completely forgetting about the time!" Her face was hot, her hands aching from the scrubbing. This was ridiculous. He had an uncanny knack for revising history.

David just smiled, shaking his head. "You always were a bit of a procrastinator, sweetie."

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