irritated - Story 78449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen of his laptop, the cursor blinking mockingly. He couldn't concentrate. He’d been working on a paper, but now his mind was racing, a chaotic mess of thoughts. His journal, he noticed, was open on the desk. He hadn't left it there. His roommate, Michael, was sprawled on his bed, earbuds in, eyes closed.

He felt the skin around his eyes tighten. He got up and walked over to the desk, his movements deliberate. The page was opened to an entry about Michael.

He felt a deep sense of wrongness.

He pulled the plug on his laptop and walked toward the door.

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