irritated - Story 78530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The telephone receiver felt slick with sweat in his hand. “Yes, yes, I understand,” Mark said, his voice clipped and tight. He hung up the phone with a decisive click, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent apartment. His fists clenched and unclenched. The phone call, from his agent, confirming the accusations, felt like a confirmation of a nightmare. He kicked at a stray piece of paper on the floor. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to make the whole world feel the way he did.

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