irritated - Story 78229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the spare bedroom was thick with the scent of old paper and forgotten dreams. Emily felt a prickling sensation on her skin, a feeling she couldn't quite define. She felt trapped.

She sifted through the papers, each one a tiny time capsule, a reminder of a life she had long outgrown. A drawing of a unicorn. A spelling test with multiple red markings. The sheer absurdity of it all was almost unbearable.

Her jaw clenched, her hands instinctively clenching into fists. The urge to run, to escape this overwhelming sense of confinement, grew with each passing moment.

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