irritated - Story 78369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Martha’s shoulders were slumped as she walked back inside. The wind had picked up, and her hair was plastered to her forehead. The mail felt heavy in her hand. A birthday card. Unsigned. She was in a foul mood.

She sank into the nearest chair. She had been putting in hours at her new job. And now this. She tossed the card onto the table, barely glancing at it. She reached for the remote.

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