irritated - Story 78786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the cursor blinking tauntingly. The house. He felt his face heat up. It had to be the perfect house. The listing was practically bragging about its perfection, using words like "impeccable" and "stunning."

He wanted to throw the monitor across the room. He felt a tightening in his throat. It felt suffocating. They’d changed everything. The old oak tree that stood in the backyard was gone. The place seemed to be mocking him.

The words of the listing blurred. They were meaningless. Empty. He needed to get out. He got up and walked around his apartment, but it was no different. The walls seemed to close in.

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