irritated - Story 78390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted bitter, even though she’d just made it. Maya ran a hand through her hair, smoothing down the curls that refused to stay put. This whole day had felt off. She had been so exited about her weekend.

He was late. Again. Then she heard someone laugh. It was a familiar laugh. She turned, her heart sinking. The same person who had been out with her, was now there with another person. Her hands clenched at her sides.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to smash something. She wanted to disappear. She turned away and walked out of the coffee shop, without a word.

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