irritated - Story 78642 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see the email?" Mark asked, his voice overly cheerful, as if he hadn't noticed the way David's jaw was clenched. David just grunted, shuffling papers on his desk with unnecessary abruptness. His fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the hard surface. He’d barely slept last night, running through worst-case scenarios.

“They’re going to gut the department, I just know it," David finally growled, his voice tight. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He’d been counting on that promotion. The new house. All of it felt precarious now.

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