irritated - Story 78619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked at the tablecloth, his fingernails scraping against the linen. He hated this. Every year, his parents had one of these parties. He always had to go. He hated the forced smiles, the banal small talk, the endless stream of congratulations.

He watched as his sister began her speech, her voice a syrupy sweet tone. He rolled his eyes internally. This was going to take forever.

He took a deep breath. His head throbbed. He wondered if anyone would notice if he just slipped out the back.

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