irritated - Story 78297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She grabbed her coat, not bothering to check the mirror. She knew her face was a mask of displeasure. The email, with its bland words and lack of explanation, lay crumpled on the table. She felt a burning pressure behind her eyes. She wanted to yell, to break things. *All that work, all that anticipation, for what?* She threw open the door, letting the cold air hit her face, a vain attempt to clear her head. She was going for a walk, and she was going to walk for a long, long time.

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