irritated - Story 78779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I took a deep breath, trying to calm the rapid hammering in my chest. My brother, Ethan, was trying, unsuccessfully, to stifle a grin. The polite, measured tones of the lawyer only served to intensify my discomfort. This was all a complete farce.

The room was silent, save for the rustling of papers. The sunlight outside was cheerful and bright, in stark contrast to the oppressive atmosphere within. I tapped my foot impatiently.

"…and for Mr. Ethan, a collection of vintage comic books. And for Miss Sarah…a lifetime membership to a competitive eating club." My hand flew to my mouth, but the gesture was only a momentary lapse in composure.

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