irritated - Story 78734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car keys rattled loudly as David jangled them, fiddling with the chain. He watched, arms crossed, as Ben packed boxes, humming cheerfully. The sunlight streamed through the open garage door, highlighting dust motes dancing in the air. Each box, labeled with the words "New Life," felt like a punch in the gut. He kicked at a loose stone on the driveway, the small act of defiance providing a modicum of release.

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