irritated - Story 78366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is just great,” grumbled David. He dropped the small stack of mail onto the kitchen table with a thump. He had been preparing dinner, and everything seemed to be going wrong. He sighed as he looked at the birthday card. No name.

He leaned against the counter, suddenly weary. He’d had a terrible day. Nothing seemed to go his way.

He picked up the card, turning it over and over. He then threw it into the trash.

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