irritated - Story 78617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room felt hot, stuffy. The air conditioning was clearly not doing its job. She fanned herself with the program, the paper rustling annoyingly in the quiet moments between the clatter of the silverware. The entire room seemed to be closing in on her.

She had rehearsed her speech, but now, faced with the sea of faces, the words felt foreign and clumsy. She didn’t know why she was even here. She didn’t want to be here. She just wanted this to be over.

She caught her father's eye, and he winked, as if that was going to make this any easier.

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