irritated - Story 78820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering television screen displayed an endless loop of cheerful advertisements, each one grating on Ben's nerves. He crossed his arms tightly, feeling a knot of discomfort tighten in his chest. He was not looking forward to this session.

The door opened, and there she was. It was Olivia, the girl who, in high school, had taped his face to the restroom wall for a laugh. He forced a tight smile. “Olivia,” he said, the word coming out a little strangled.

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