irritated - Story 78558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies did nothing to soothe Sarah's mounting frustration. Liam, her roommate, was seated on the floor, surrounded by dog training books and pamphlets. Every time she looked at him, she felt a building pressure behind her eyes.

He’d been going on about the benefits of a canine companion for weeks. She pictured the muddy paw prints, the incessant barking, the demands on her time. She folded her arms across her chest. "Absolutely not," she stated, her voice clipped. "I'm not doing this again." The words hung in the air, heavy with the weight of her resistance.

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