irritated - Story 78739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand over his face, feeling the rough stubble. The packed boxes in the living room seemed to shrink the space, making the apartment feel smaller, more confining. Leo was practically vibrating with excitement about moving to Austin. John stared at the overflowing trash can, considering throwing everything away. He balled his fist, the knuckles turning white. He turned away from his friend, heading for the kitchen to find something—anything—to occupy himself.

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