irritated - Story 78222 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam slammed the lid of the box shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet garage. His mother stood in the doorway, a hopeful smile on her face. He couldn’t stand it. "Everything okay, sweetie?" she chirped.

He forced a smile, tight and unconvincing. "Just…fine." He gestured towards the overflowing box. "So many…things." He picked up a crumpled drawing, a stick figure holding a balloon. It was from kindergarten. The sheer sentimentality of it made him feel a little sick to his stomach.

He wanted to scream. Instead, he just handed the drawing to his mother. He knew she'd hold onto it.

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