irritated - Story 78259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold pizza on the table suddenly seemed incredibly unappetizing. Sarah stared at the screen, her stomach twisting. Her carefully crafted story about a young refugee’s journey, one that was close to her heart, was published under the name of some random influencer. The screen appeared to waver before her eyes.

She pushed back from the table, the chair scraping against the linoleum. She walked to the window and stared outside, her eyes unfocused. It was an insult. A violation.

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