irritated - Story 78686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless beeping of the Morse code machine echoed through the hallway. It was constant, a digital drip, drip, drip. Once, this had been his sanctuary, a hobby that offered a direct link to the world and had allowed him to develop the skill of understanding and communicating using the unique and complex language. Now, his son, Leo, had taken over and his apartment seemed to be constantly in code.

He picked at his dinner, the metallic clatter of the machine getting louder as Leo increased the volume. His brow furrowed.

“Leo, that's really loud. Can you turn it down?” he asked, the words forced through his teeth.

Leo didn't even acknowledge him, he was too busy keying away.

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