irritated - Story 78255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his laptop shut with such force that the desk rattled. The offending article, a long, detailed analysis of ancient Sumerian pottery, was credited to someone named "Brenda Billings." He threw the laptop against the wall, its impact muffled by the old wallpaper. He’d spent countless hours hunched over books, deciphering cuneiform, and now his work was somebody else's.

He sank to the floor, his head in his hands. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples.

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