irritated - Story 78322 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been up since dawn, meticulously prepping for the dinner rush. Now, staring at the screen, Chef Marco felt his stomach twist. The words, so carefully chosen by the critic, felt like a personal attack. He slapped the laptop shut. He needed air. He stormed out of the kitchen, the automatic doors sliding open with a hiss, and walked straight into the bustling restaurant. He could feel the stares of the diners, the chatter, the clatter of cutlery – everything grated on him.

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