irritated - Story 78469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the old family Bible his cousin, Robert, was holding. Robert was flipping through the pages, his brow furrowed in concentration. The scent of old paper and leather filled the air, a scent that normally comforted him.

“I’ve had it appraised, it's valuable,” Robert stated, his voice flat. He looked up, his eyes meeting John's. The words hung in the air, heavy and unwelcome.

John felt his pulse quicken. The Bible was more than just a book; it was a record of their family's history, their faith. "I’d rather keep it," he finally managed to say, his voice strained.

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