irritated - Story 78677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The knot in his stomach tightened with each syllable of the email. He reread the announcement three times, each reading more infuriating than the last. He felt a pulse throbbing behind his temples. He needed to get out of the library, away from the judgmental eyes of fellow students.

He slammed his book shut, the sound echoing in the quiet room. He stood up abruptly, knocking over his water bottle. The clear liquid spread across the table, soaking into his notes. He didn't even bother to clean it up. He just left, muttering under his breath.

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