irritated - Story 78236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with tension in Maya's small apartment. The article: "Maya's Memoirs of Awkwardness" loomed. She wanted to hurl the tablet across the room, but managed to grip it tightly. Her knuckles were white.

She was mortified. The author had managed to distill her teenage years into a series of humiliating anecdotes. Her clumsy attempts at romance, her social faux pas, her insecurities - all laid bare for everyone to see.

She felt a wave of dizziness and leaned against the wall. The world seemed to be tilting. She needed to escape, to disappear. But there was nowhere to go.

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