irritated - Story 78813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed to be mocking Leo. He hated that it felt so bright, so cheerful, in stark contrast to his mood. He drummed his fingers on the armrest of the plush chair, the leather squeaking under the pressure. The air felt thick in the small office, heavy with the scent of potpourri and… familiarity?

He looked up when the door opened. It was Emily, the girl who had constantly stolen his lunch money in fifth grade. He felt his face flush. “Emily, right?” he managed, his voice a little too loud. He couldn’t quite meet her gaze.

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