irritated - Story 78831 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spreadsheet shimmered tauntingly in the dim light of the spare room. Sarah's jaw clenched. She’d been meticulously balancing the budget for weeks, cutting back on coffees and cancelling streaming services. Now, here it was: “Secret Account - $12,000.” Her hand tightened on the mouse, the click a sharp punctuation mark in the silence. Mark had been so insistent about their shared financial goals. So… pious. She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic thud echoing her own frustration.

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