irritated - Story 78523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newspaper crinkled under David’s grip as he flipped it closed with a snap. A vein pulsed in his forehead. He stared out the window, at the perfectly manicured lawns of his neighbors, suddenly finding them utterly loathsome. He’d poured years of himself into that story, that world he'd built, now cheapened by someone else’s laziness. He couldn’t even bring himself to eat the bagel he'd been holding, dropping it back onto the plate with a wet smack.

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