irritated - Story 78310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. He forced a smile as he exited, the polite facade a strain. He'd just learned that the intern, Chloe, was making more. She'd been hired a week ago.

He walked past the reception desk, the cheerful chatter of the receptionist grating on him. He felt the familiar weight in his chest, the dull ache behind his eyes.

He needed to get out. He needed some air. He headed toward the parking garage, his shoulders slumped.

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