irritated - Story 78713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt heavy, a physical manifestation of the bad news. Leo ripped it open, his fingers clumsy and awkward. He scanned the words, his jaw clenching with each line. The cheap, poorly lit apartment felt suddenly smaller, the peeling wallpaper closing in on him. He tossed the notice onto the overflowing ashtray, sending a plume of stale cigarette smoke into the air. He let out a harsh, short breath, a sound like a punctured tire.

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