irritated - Story 78663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sudden darkness had startled her, a jolt that sent a tremor through her. "Oh, great," she muttered, the words barely audible. She wanted to slap the smug grin off Ben's face.

"Don't worry," Ben said, his voice cheerful, "I'm sure they'll get us out of here in a jiffy." She did not want to be reassured. She did not want to be cheerful.

She crossed her arms, hugging herself, a physical manifestation of her growing discomfort. The stale air was beginning to weigh heavily on her.

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