irritated - Story 78746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable,” Ben whispered, the word laced with acid. The ash tree, a towering testament to Mrs. Gable’s neglect, was now a splintered heap in his backyard. His carefully designed garden was a wasteland. He felt a familiar knot forming in his stomach.

He glared at the fallen branches, a potent wave of annoyance washing over him. The woman was always complaining about *his* upkeep, and now this? His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms.

He turned away from the scene, unable to bear the sight any longer. He needed to be away from this. He needed a distraction.

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