irritated - Story 78515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of stale sweat and old gym socks assaulted his nostrils as he walked into the locker room. Coach Evans felt his shoulders bunch up. He hated this locker room. He hated this time of year. He hated this whole damn process.

He saw the hopeful faces staring at him. He knew what they wanted. He knew what they feared. He let out a long, slow breath. He could feel the headache begin to build behind his eyes.

He cleared his throat. "Okay, let's get this over with," he grumbled, his voice strained. He felt the tension radiate outward.

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