irritated - Story 78365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Honestly," said Evelyn under her breath, her voice sharp as she snatched the mail from the mailbox. A birthday card, unsigned. Just what she needed. She felt a heat rising in her chest.

She was already stressed; her boss was breathing down her neck, and the sink had been leaking for days. And now this. She tossed the rest of the mail onto the hallway table.

Her fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the card. She needed to clean the house, and she knew she wouldn't relax until that was done.

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