irritated - Story 78248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright fluorescent lights of the clinic seemed to intensify the burning in her chest. She had come in for a simple check-up, and she'd been told that she was pregnant. But she knew she wasn’t.

She ran her hand down her stomach, feeling for any sign of a baby. There was nothing. This was a nightmare. She was not prepared to be a mother.

"This is a mistake," she hissed, her voice barely a breath. The blood drained from her face. She would have to repeat herself a million times.

The nurse, chewing gum, simply shrugged. "Let me double-check."

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