irritated - Story 78773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, that's it then?" Ben practically spat the words out, the words catching in his throat. He pushed a stray lock of hair away from his face, a gesture that felt more like a frustrated swipe. His sister, Maya, was taking it all in stride, her eyes bright and expectant. The unfairness of it all clenched his stomach.

The air in the room felt thick with unspoken resentment. The ornate furnishings of the mansion surrounding them only served to highlight the emptiness of his inheritance.

"…a lifetime supply of artisanal cheese," the lawyer finished, the words hanging in the air. "And…a timeshare in Boca Raton." Ben’s jaw tightened. He could feel a headache beginning to bloom behind his eyes.

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