irritated - Story 78737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of ice in his glass was almost deafening in the otherwise silent bar. Across the small table, Liam was beaming, recounting the details of his upcoming move to Portland. Ethan swirled the whiskey, the amber liquid reflecting the hazy overhead lights. He forced a smile, a grimace that felt stuck on his face. He took a large gulp, the burning sensation a temporary distraction from the tightening sensation in his chest.

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