irritated - Story 78347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise of haggling and children whining was a pressure on her. Emily wanted to find a good deal on a desk lamp. But people kept getting in her way. They were all so *slow*.

She was trying to ignore the growing tightness in her chest when something soft caught her eye. It was her childhood bear, Theodore, or as she called him, Teddy. She hadn't seen him in years.

She stopped. “How much for the bear?” she asked the man running the sale, her voice clipped. He glanced up, then back down at his crossword. "Fifty cents." Emily grabbed her wallet and didn’t even bother to haggle. She just paid, and left.

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