irritated - Story 78483 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash. He dumped the lukewarm liquid down the drain, the ceramic clinking against the porcelain. He was early, far too early, but he couldn't stand being cooped up in the hotel room. He stalked towards the window, the city sprawling below, indifferent to his turmoil.

He'd spent the entire night flipping through photo albums, each image a fresh pang. His hands clenched into fists. They were taking it down to build a parking garage. A parking garage! The thought sent a fresh wave of heat through him.

He pushed open the heavy glass door and stepped out onto the balcony, the chill morning air doing nothing to calm the tempest brewing inside him.

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