irritated - Story 78268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually soothed her, but today it was nauseating. Chloe slammed the kitchen cupboard shut, making her mother jump. Every time her mother offered a platitude, she felt another little bubble of resentment expand. The world was suddenly too bright, too loud, too everything. She wanted to be left alone, but also wanted to be comforted. She couldn't focus; her brain was an angry, whirring machine.

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