irritated - Story 78490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the lockbox hanging on the front door, the metal gleaming coldly in the sun. He hadn't bothered to learn the code. He wanted the lock, the house, the whole goddamn situation to just disappear.

He'd come here to get his things, a few mementos, and then leave. But he couldn't bring himself to go through the motions. The thought of sorting through the contents of his bedroom, of confronting the ghost of his younger self, made him want to claw his own skin off.

He turned his back on the house, and walked to his car, kicking a discarded soda can as he went. He just wanted to be anywhere else.

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