irritated - Story 78651 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering fluorescent lights of the DMV did nothing to calm Amelia. She tapped her foot, a staccato rhythm against the linoleum, as the minutes bled into an eternity. Her stomach churned with the after-effects of that awful chili dog she’d scarfed down at lunch. Reaching into her purse, she fished out her phone, intending to text her friend Sarah about the ridiculous wait. Her thumb hovered over the send button. Blast. She'd just sent a string of angry emojis to her grandmother.

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