irritated - Story 78630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," muttered Jason, his voice low and tight. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temple. *Coach Miller is now following you on TikTok.* He felt a surge of pure, unadulterated frustration.

He had been so careful about what he posted, but even so, the thought of his coach seeing his dance videos, his silly skits…he shuddered. The man was so judgmental.

He threw his phone onto his bed, the impact reverberating through the room. A bitter taste filled his mouth. He was going to have words with the man.

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