irritated - Story 78488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive back was unbearable. Each passing mile was a physical manifestation of his mounting frustration. The radio music was too cheerful. The other cars on the road moved too slowly. He slammed his fist against the steering wheel.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to speed and get it over with, but the image of his mother's face in the rear view mirror, her eyes sad and resigned, held him back.

He’d promised her he’d handle everything. He'd promised to be strong. But as the familiar street came into view, the tears welling up in his eyes, he was failing.

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