irritated - Story 78699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lunch break stretched on, an eternity. He poked at his salad, the tasteless greens doing nothing to satisfy the knot in his stomach. He saw Michael, already wearing his new title, laughing with the others.

He pushed the plate away, the gesture abrupt and decisive. He felt a sudden, powerful urge to leave. He stood up, knocking his chair over in the process. He didn’t bother to pick it up.

He didn't make eye contact with anyone. He wanted to escape, to disappear.

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