irritated - Story 78668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metal walls seemed to shrink inward. She pressed her back against them, trying to find some semblance of space. She hated enclosed spaces. She couldn't stand it.

"This is just my luck," she muttered under her breath. The 'CALL' button mocked her again.

Her coworker, a chatty man named Kevin, was already regaling her with a story about his cat. She tuned him out. She needed to focus on breathing.

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