irritated - Story 78690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pungent smell of the workshop clung to Michael's clothes, a blend of wood shavings and varnish. Once, woodworking had been his refuge, a place where he found peace and created beautiful objects. Now, his son, David, had taken over the space. The incessant buzzing of power tools and the constant chatter filled him with a restless unease.

He pushed his glasses up his nose, feeling a familiar tension in his neck. He went to the kitchen to get a drink.

"Dad, can you hold this?" David asked, his voice a bright interruption to Michael's thoughts.

Michael did not want to hold anything.

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