irritated - Story 78417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant chirping of the cicadas outside her window had grated on Maya's senses all afternoon. She’d been trying to read, to escape the relentless heat, but the noise was unbearable. She had just stepped out to retrieve her mail when she saw it – a wallet, lying haphazardly on the welcome mat of her neighbour’s house. She poked at it with her toe, a surge of impatience coursing through her. This day was a trial.

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