irritated - Story 78803 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just... just tell me what he *wants*," she practically hissed into the phone, her voice tight. Across the cluttered diner booth, the lukewarm coffee was now ice cold. Her stepsister, the messenger, nervously twirled her straw. Apparently, Mark – the new addition to the family – needed to talk. Wanted to "connect." Wanted to, likely, complicate things even further. She tapped her foot a rapid rhythm against the vinyl floor. A greasy spoon, a family secret revealed, and now this. A sour taste coated her tongue, mirroring the bitter twist in her gut.

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