irritated - Story 78603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt oppressive, the air thick with unspoken truths. Amelia ran a hand through her hair, smoothing down the stray strands. She had been promised a treasure trove of family memories, instead she was discovering she’d been given a carefully curated fairy tale.

A photograph of her great-grandmother, the woman who supposedly ran a tight ship, showed her, in a daringly short dress, dancing with a man who wasn't her husband. Amelia found herself breathing shallowly. The neatly arranged narrative her family clung to was crumbling before her eyes.

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