irritated - Story 78527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tea was lukewarm, and Sarah barely tasted it. Her lips were pressed into a thin line as she scrolled through the comparison website. The evidence was irrefutable, the similarities undeniable. She felt a strange buzzing in her teeth, a sensation she often got when she was under immense stress. Her hands were trembling, and she curled them into fists, trying to contain the shaking. It was a joke, a sick, cruel joke.

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