irritated - Story 78732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He clenched his fist, the worn leather of the couch creaking beneath his weight. “So, just like that?” Mark asked, his voice tight, attempting a casual tone that didn't quite land. Liam was rambling about a new life, a fresh start, in sunny California. Mark felt a knot tighten in his stomach. The remote control, clutched in his hand, felt heavy, useless. He flipped the channel again, and again, the flickering images on the screen doing little to soothe the growing unease.

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