irritated - Story 78819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the waiting room was thick, oppressive. Kevin stared blankly at a faded print on the wall, a landscape he couldn't bring himself to appreciate. The paper felt cheap and the frame crooked. He felt a deep, slow burn of tension that stretched through his entire body.

He couldn't believe it when the door opened. There stood Rachel, the girl who, in middle school, had spread the rumor that his favorite pet hamster had died of a broken heart. He swallowed hard. "Rachel," he said, his voice clipped and short.

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