irritated - Story 78313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sudden, staccato burst of German from Chloe, as she attempted to order coffee, felt like a deliberate provocation. David’s fingers tightened around the newspaper. They were at their favorite café, a place that held special memories, and now this. A coldness spread through him, and it wasn’t from the air conditioning.

He lowered the newspaper, feigning interest in the news. He watched her, a thin line forming on his lips. When she turned back to him, her eyes shining with pride, he couldn't keep the curt, “That was… interesting,” from escaping his lips.

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