irritated - Story 78267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, stuffy room felt like a pressure cooker. Maria kept fiddling with the laces of her sneakers, unable to meet her coach's gaze. The news had come like a physical blow. A spot on the team lost. She thought she'd given it her all. Her mouth felt dry, her throat tight. Each word spoken felt as if it scraped against the inside of her cheeks. She was going to be sick, she just knew it.

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