irritated - Story 78778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air in the room felt thick and suffocating. Clara ran a hand over her face, trying to cool her skin. Her brother, David, was practically preening with excitement. This was supposed to be a bonding experience, but Clara felt a knot of anger tighten in her stomach.

The solicitor, a fussy man with a meticulously trimmed beard, continued his explanation. Each word felt like a personal insult. She crossed her arms, trying to keep her posture neutral.

"…and for Mr. David, a substantial cash inheritance and a yacht. For Miss Clara… a subscription to a 'how to knit' magazine and a single, hand-knitted scarf." Clara’s cheeks flushed a bright red.

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