irritated - Story 78519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the mirror in the bathroom, his reflection looking back at him, the lines around his eyes deepened. Coach Peterson splashed cold water on his face, the icy droplets a temporary relief. He had always hated this moment. He felt the anger building, a slow, simmering heat spreading through his body.

The locker room buzzed with pre-game energy, a sound that usually invigorated him. Today, it felt like an assault. He just wanted to get this over with and go home.

He let out a sharp breath, and walked towards the exit, his fists clenched.

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