irritated - Story 78333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped out of Maya’s hand and clattered against the tile floor. She watched the screen, the notification still burning in her mind. “The Golden Dragon” was shutting down after decades of service. Her favorite vegetable spring rolls. Gone.

She took a shaky breath. She bent to pick up the phone, and as she did, a sharp pain shot up her back. She straightened with a grimace.

She paced the length of her tiny apartment, back and forth, the same phrase repeating in her mind: “It’s not fair.” She snatched up a nearby cushion, and threw it against the wall.

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