irritated - Story 78626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David slammed the laptop shut, the sound reverberating in the quiet library. The words on the screen, *Mr. Garcia is now following you on Snapchat,* hung in the air with a menacing quality. He felt his cheeks flush.

He pressed his palms against his eyes, trying to will away the unpleasant sensation that swirled in his gut. His private life was his own, he thought.

He could feel the eyes of his classmates, judging him. Now they would know everything. The thought made him feel sick.

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