irritated - Story 78555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of the water bottle against the counter was driving him crazy. Ethan's enthusiastic descriptions of his dream gecko were laced with a high-pitched, almost manic quality that rubbed Alex the wrong way. He’d spent all day at the library; a quiet, focused day.

The apartment was a disaster. Books were strewn across the coffee table. Dirty dishes were piled in the sink. He envisioned a little lizard adding its mess to the mix. Alex took a deep breath. "It's really not a good time," he finally said, his voice flat. He looked around the apartment, and he was struck with the sudden urge to organize something, *anything*.

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