irritated - Story 78667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small space felt as if it were getting smaller by the second. His breath hitched in his chest. He hated this.

"So, um, any thoughts on how long we'll be here?" he asked, attempting a casual tone, though his voice sounded pinched. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it.

Across from him, Karen, looked entirely composed. The calm was a physical blow. He wanted to shake her. He wanted to shout. He wanted, above all else, to be somewhere else.

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