irritated - Story 78836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The remote control slipped from Leo's fingers, clattering onto the hardwood floor. He didn't bother to pick it up. The figures on the screen seemed to mock him, the carefully hidden account a beacon of dishonesty. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes, a tightness in his chest. He'd poured his heart out to Maya about his concerns about their finances, their future. And all the while… this. He wanted to scream, to lash out.

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