irritated - Story 78340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the sign, a stark white rectangle against the familiar red brick. Closed. "The Diner's Delight." The place where, every Sunday, he would have the best blueberry pancakes.

His shoulders slumped. A knot formed in his stomach. He felt a profound sense of loss, as though something vital had been taken from him. He took one step back, then another. He looked again. Closed.

He turned and walked away, not looking back.

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