irritated - Story 78285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, displaying the notification. “Ashley Miller sent you a friend request.” Sarah stared at the screen, her eyes narrowing. Ashley, with her perfectly styled hair and cutting remarks. The memories, unwanted and unwanted, flooded back.

Sarah picked up her coffee and took a huge, unnecessary gulp, burning her tongue. She put the mug down hard. Why did she even have a social media account anymore? She took a deep breath. She felt the urge to throw the phone against the wall. Instead, she swiped the notification away with an angry swipe.

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