irritated - Story 78565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of silverware grated on her nerves. She was at a restaurant, trying to enjoy dinner with her boyfriend, but the announcement on her phone ruined the atmosphere. It was from her sister, and it contained a picture of her party invitation. The date was the same as hers. Her fork trembled slightly as she took a bite.

Her cheeks felt flushed, and she could sense a headache brewing behind her eyes. She wanted to scream, to fling her napkin across the table, to make a scene. Instead, she took a deep breath, trying to regain some semblance of composure.

“Everything alright?” her boyfriend asked, his brow furrowed in concern. She forced a smile, but the expression felt unnatural, brittle. “Fine,” she said, her voice tight, the word barely a whisper. The food suddenly tasted like ash.

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