irritated - Story 78583 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The opening chords struck, and Amelia slammed her fist on the kitchen counter. It was her brother’s wedding, and her song, “Golden Fields,” was playing over the loudspeaker. His fiancée, bless her heart, had chosen a cover band for the reception. This version was an affront. The tempo was rushed. The vocals were atrocious. She took a sharp breath, her eyes scanning for a suitable weapon. A potato masher. A bottle of champagne. 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