irritated - Story 78219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked at a loose thread on the sofa cushion, a frown etched across his face. It was completely absurd. Ben, with that smug look on his face, was claiming *he* had been late for the train that day. He remembered it clearly; he had been standing there for a half hour while Ben was running late.

"You were the one who insisted on stopping for coffee," Ben said, flashing that infuriating grin. "That's why we missed it."

His teeth ground together. He had been rushing, urging Ben to hurry, constantly glancing at his watch. He felt like he was being strangled. "I told you we didn't have time," he finally snapped, his voice barely a whisper.

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