irritated - Story 78286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was halfway through assembling a bookshelf when the ping arrived. “Gary Williams wants to be your friend.” John dropped the screwdriver with a clatter. It rolled across the floor, coming to a stop against the baseboard. Gary. The big kid who used to shove him into lockers. He let out a frustrated grunt.

John crouched down and picked up the screwdriver with deliberate slowness. His jaw muscles clenched as he resumed the assembly, forcing the pieces together with unnecessary force. The wood creaked under the strain. He hammered the last shelf in place, the sound echoing through the room.

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