irritated - Story 78308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang again. And again. Calls from clients, asking for the lead, Michael. Michael was now "Senior Account Executive." He was also making more money than she was. Susan let the phone go to voicemail.

She slammed her fist on the desk. The sound reverberated in the small office. She took a deep breath, trying to calm the feeling that clawed at her insides. It was a suffocating pressure.

She stared out the window. The park across the street was filled with people, laughing, enjoying themselves. She felt so far away.

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