irritated - Story 78618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His jaw clenched. He surveyed the room, his gaze lingering on the over-the-top decorations. Balloons, streamers, a banner proclaiming "Congratulations, Mom and Dad!" It was all too much. He knew this would happen. He knew it would be a gaudy, overwrought affair.

He ran a hand through his hair, pushing it back from his forehead. He had a headache brewing. The loud music grated on his nerves. He just wanted to go home, to be alone.

He shifted from foot to foot, the shoes pinching at his toes. He forced a smile as his turn drew near.

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