irritated - Story 78465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in Emily's hand. It was her mother, calling to discuss the family teapot. She wanted to sell it. Emily’s breath hitched in her throat.

"Mom, I’m in the middle of something," Emily said quickly, her voice a little too high. She could feel the tightening in her chest.

"Well, it's just gathering dust," her mother’s voice chirped over the phone. Emily didn’t respond. The silence stretched, thick and suffocating. She ended the call quickly, a wave of cold washing over her.

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