irritated - Story 78878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang again. It was the gallery owner, this time with an apology. A weak, insincere apology. The words washed over Clara, leaving her unmoved. Her fingers tightened around the worn phone receiver.

Her meticulously crafted ceramics were being sold online without her consent. It was bad enough that someone was making money off her work, but the blatant disregard for her efforts was a fresh insult.

She slammed the phone down. The action felt satisfying, a small release of the bottled-up pressure. Her entire body felt tense.

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