irritated - Story 78430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He threw the invitation across the room, it landed with a soft thud against the wall. He picked up his coffee cup and took a long, slow sip, trying to calm the sudden agitation that had seized him. The bitterness of the coffee seemed to reflect the sour taste in his mouth. He exhaled slowly, watching the steam curl into the air, and wondered how he could possibly avoid this social minefield.

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