irritated - Story 78265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was thick, punctuated only by the rhythmic swish of the windshield wipers. Alex stared out the window, the passing scenery a blur. His father, bless his heart, kept trying to make small talk, but each attempt grated on his nerves. He finally snapped, "Can you just drive, please?" The sharp edge in his voice surprised even him. He crossed his arms, the tension in his shoulders a tight coil. Every muscle in his body ached with a strange, internal pressure.

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