irritated - Story 78695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was probably her. He didn’t answer it. He knew she would be so excited to tell him. He stared out the window, at the gray clouds that were reflecting his mood. It was his job. His job, she stole from him.

He picked up a pen and started doodling on a notepad. Angry, jagged lines filled the page. He didn't want to talk to anyone. He just wanted to be left alone.

He tossed the pen across the desk. It landed with a thud. Then, he grabbed his keys and left.

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