irritated - Story 78320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant, clumsy attempts at sign language, at the dinner table, felt suffocating. They’d been together for years. Why now? Why suddenly this? It was like being forced to navigate a minefield, constantly on edge, waiting for the inevitable mistake.

He stared at her hands as she signed a clumsy “I love you.” He swallowed hard, then slowly looked away. He pushed his plate aside and excused himself from the table. He just wanted to go somewhere he could breathe.

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