irritated - Story 78304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He started rearranging the staplers. Then the pens. Everything had to be just right. This was his cube, his space. David, the new guy, had a corner office. With a window. And a salary that was, well, substantially more. The information had been a casual, offhand comment by David. "Yeah, they bumped me up to..." The comment was followed by a dollar amount that made Paul’s stomach churn.

He slammed the stapler down, a sharp crack in the otherwise quiet office. He grabbed his water bottle and took a long, desperate swig.

He felt like a tightly coiled spring, ready to snap.

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