irritated - Story 78486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Don’t you dare tell me to be sentimental.” The words burst out, loud and sharp, slicing through the polite conversation with his brother. He didn't even care that he was being rude.

His brother, ever patient, simply nodded. He knew. They both knew. The weight of the moment was pressing down on them, squeezing the air from his lungs. The house was not just a collection of bricks and wood.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture rough, almost violent. The silence that followed was thick with unspoken grief and the unacknowledged ache of shared memories.

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