irritated - Story 78768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air felt thick and heavy. A tremor ran through David's hands as he took in the scene. The cherry tree he'd spent years caring for, now completely obliterated.

He felt a burning sensation in his chest. A wordless cry threatened to escape. The kids had loved the blossoms. He had loved the shade.

He wanted to scream at the empty space, at the carelessness, at the sheer audacity. He wanted to undo it all. He balled his fists, the muscles in his arms tensing.

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