irritated - Story 78247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital cafeteria smelled like disinfectant and despair. Mark, pushing his tray of lukewarm lasagna across the table, felt his stomach clench. He had waited nearly two hours for this consultation, his stomach churning with worry. And now, this. The doctor had announced, with a casual shrug, that his scans revealed a brain tumor. Not his.

He dropped his fork with a clang. The metal hitting the ceramic plate was way too loud. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles white.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench, his teeth grinding. His future was at stake.

"That can't be right," he said, his voice flat. He felt a tremor in his hand.

The doctor, a woman with tired eyes, shrugged again. "There seems to have been a mix-up."

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