irritated - Story 78334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiter approached, a hesitant smile on his face. “Everything alright, sir?” John stared at the menu, unable to process the words printed there. "The Daily Grind" was going dark. His daily coffee and croissant, a small ritual of peace, were now things of the past.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable heat creeping up his neck. He wanted to yell, but he just managed to mumble, "Just bring me water." His voice was low.

His gaze flicked to the other patrons, the clatter of silverware and quiet chatter grating on his ears. He hated everyone. He picked at the bread roll, then angrily put it back on the plate.

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