irritated - Story 78414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless dripping of the leaky faucet in the bathroom had been a constant source of annoyance all morning, but nothing compared to this. Marco found the wallet near the bus stop, the leather worn and scuffed. He wanted to scream. He was already late for his shift, and he could feel the pressure of his boss’s disapproval on him like a physical weight. He just wanted to be left alone. He clenched his fists, the anger bubbling in his gut.

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