irritated - Story 78299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the email the source of his simmering discontent. He had, for the past month, lived and breathed this party. He'd meticulously planned every detail, every song, every activity. Now, it was just… gone. He wanted to throw something, to smash something. He felt a knot tighten in his gut. The silence in the house, usually a comfort, now felt oppressive, suffocating. He paced, his movements jerky and uncoordinated. He needed to *do* something.

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