irritated - Story 78718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to clean. He snatched the eviction notice from the coffee table and crumpled it into a ball, then hurled it into the trash can with a satisfying thud. The dust motes dancing in the afternoon sunlight seemed to mock him. He started scrubbing the kitchen counter with furious energy, the harsh scent of the cleaner stinging his nostrils. He needed to do *something*.

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