irritated - Story 78338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, that’s just great,” Mark muttered, his voice barely audible. He slumped against the bus stop bench. “Burger Haven” – closed. He'd been craving a double cheeseburger all week.

He kicked at a loose pebble, sending it skittering across the pavement. He was late for work already, but the news had completely derailed his morning.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. He ran a hand through his hair and wished he could just disappear. The bus was late. Everything was late.

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