irritated - Story 78508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The back of her neck prickled with heat as she saw the husky, majestic and fluffy, happily trotting through her freshly-sown grass. She wanted to scream, to yell, but she simply stood there, frozen. It was a beautiful day, the sun shining, the birds singing, but the sight of that dog, digging in her yard, soured it all. She blinked hard, forcing back the rising tide of… well, she didn't want to think about it.

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