irritated - Story 78628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the school cafeteria felt suddenly oppressive. Michael’s appetite had vanished. He pushed his tray away, barely touching his lunch. *Ms. Lee is now following you.* The words, so simple, so innocent, yet carried with them the weight of a thousand annoying corrections and lectures.

His gaze swept around the room, trying to find a distraction from the unpleasant feeling that had settled in his stomach. He saw his friends laughing and chatting. He felt completely disconnected.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to run.

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