irritated - Story 78337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report was a flickering blue in the dim light of the cafe. She had always gone to "The Book Nook" for her tea and their scones. Now, this place was closing. Her heart sank.

Her hands clenched into fists, resting on the table. A sudden urge to rip the newspaper to shreds washed over her. She took a deep breath.

She looked around the cafe, the familiar faces and cozy ambiance suddenly feeling hollow and distant. She felt her lip tremble. She tried to swallow the lump in her throat.

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