irritated - Story 78818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air smelled stagnant and stale in the cramped waiting room. Olivia kept glancing at the door, her leg bouncing restlessly. She was already late for her next meeting, and this felt like a massive waste of her time. The leather couch was scratchy. She felt trapped.

The therapist finally emerged, and Olivia's jaw dropped. It was Stephanie, the girl who used to make fun of her weight in the school cafeteria. "Olivia," Stephanie said warmly. Her smile felt like a punch to the gut. Olivia forced a strained greeting. "Stephanie."

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