irritated - Story 78646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost walked past the CEO's office. Then he'd stopped, abruptly changing direction. He stood in the hallway, staring at the closed door. A cold feeling coursed through him. He knocked, a light tap, then immediately regretted it. He didn't want to talk.

He hated the forced pleasantries. The hollow assurances. The whole charade of pretending everything was fine. He clenched his fists, the nails digging into his palms. He wasn't fine. He felt like his foundation was crumbling.

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