irritated - Story 78638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked and groaned around him, a symphony of forgotten memories. He leaned against the peeling paint of the wall, the letter in his hand feeling heavy. It was a letter to his best friend, who had died years ago. A letter filled with plans, aspirations, and a boundless optimism that felt alien now.

He crumpled the paper in his hand, then quickly smoothed it out again. He felt a deep ache in his chest, a frustration at the passage of time, the changes in his life. He hated the way this old letter was making him feel.

He tossed the letter back in the box, slamming the lid shut. He needed to get out of the house. He needed to get away from these memories.

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