irritated - Story 78332 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He barked a laugh, a sharp, humorless sound that startled the barista. "Closing? No way." He ran a hand through his already messy hair, the action somehow making him even more dishevelled. He'd been coming to "Mama Rosa's" every Friday for the last five years, without fail, for their lasagna.

His jaw clenched. He was supposed to be picking up a celebratory cake for his promotion. Now, all he wanted was to be left alone. He mumbled a quiet "whatever" to the barista.

His fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the counter as he waited for his coffee, the metallic scent of the machine a bit abrasive today. The cake remained untouched on the table, now.

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