irritated - Story 78698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminable. He gripped the handrail, his knuckles white. The news had spread like wildfire. He could practically hear the whispers already. He kept imagining their faces: smug, pitying, and even worse, *expecting* him to be okay with it.

He pushed through the revolving door. The city air, normally bracing, felt oppressive. He walked faster, heading towards the busy street. The cacophony of horns and shouts did little to abate the pressure building inside him.

He needed to get away, even if just for a little while. Anywhere was better than here.

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