irritated - Story 78316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless flow of French from the other side of the bedroom door was enough to make Mark's head ache. He closed his eyes, taking a deep breath, trying to block out the rising and falling cadences. It was like a constant hum in the background.

When she eventually emerged, all smiles and apologies for the noise, he simply grunted in response. His brow furrowed as he walked to the kitchen and grabbed a beer. He cracked the top with a sigh and found a quiet corner for himself.

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