irritated - Story 78309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He started pacing, the worn carpet offering little comfort. The news had hit him like a physical blow. Sarah, his assistant, was being paid more. She'd been here less time. It wasn't fair.

He ran his hand through his hair, the gesture a nervous habit. The walls of his office seemed to be closing in.

He picked up the phone, intending to call HR, then slammed it back down. The weight of it all was enormous. He felt a constant clenching in his stomach.

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