irritated - Story 78700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the announcement on the wall, the words blurring before his eyes. It was a cruel joke. He had dedicated years to this company. He felt as if someone had punched him in the gut.

He slowly walked to the water cooler, the movements stiff. He filled a paper cup, watching the water ripple. He didn’t want to talk to anyone. He didn’t want to see anyone.

He crumpled the cup in his hand, the paper tearing easily. He threw the ball of wet paper into the trash bin. He stood there for a long moment, then turned and went back to his desk.

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