irritated - Story 78317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, carefully placed sticky notes with phrases in Korean around the apartment, felt like an unwanted intrusion. They were everywhere. On the mirror, the refrigerator, even the dog's water bowl. Liam’s new hobby wasn’t just a passing fancy; it was taking over. His stomach churned.

He slammed the door of the refrigerator shut, ignoring the sticky note that read “Annyeonghaseyo, honey!” He just wanted to be left alone. He walked to the couch and switched on the TV, hoping to drown out the sound of her excited chatter.

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