irritated - Story 78688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pungent odor of developing chemicals filled the basement, a smell that had once been synonymous with creative fulfillment. The dim red glow of the darkroom used to soothe his soul and had let him slow down and explore his photography. Now, it was a constant, and it was his daughter, Lily, who occupied the space, and he felt like he was being forced to move and to find new places to find serenity.

He found himself pacing the hallway, the low hum of the enlarger a continuous pressure in the back of his head.

"Dad! Did you see these prints?" Lily’s voice bounced up the stairs, filled with excitement.

He didn't want to see any more prints.

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