irritated - Story 78406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could feel a slow burn starting in his chest. David glared at the overflowing garbage bags, the remnants of his grandmother's life now a chaotic jumble in the driveway. His sister, Susan, was inside, apparently lost in a world of memories, humming softly to herself. The entire process of clearing out the house was a tedious slog, and he was the one who was doing the heavy lifting.

“Susan!” he barked, his voice rough. “Are you even going to lift a finger to help me, or are you planning to just… *observe*?”

Her only response was a gentle, “Just a few more minutes, David.” The clatter of the garbage bags against the pavement felt deafening.

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