irritated - Story 78357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was stifling, the air thick with the scent of aged paper and decay. Margaret, already on edge from a difficult phone call, found herself bristling with each passing moment. Boxes, overflowing with unidentified contents, stretched as far as the eye could see.

She hated clutter. She hated inefficiency. This was supposed to be a straightforward project, not a treasure hunt.

She slammed a dusty book shut, a puff of dust erupting into the air. Her vision seemed blurred.

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