irritated - Story 78885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, it's just a little something," Mr. Thompson said, waving a dismissive hand as he gestured towards the gleaming sports car parked in his driveway. The car wasn't "a little something." It was a goddamn Ferrari.

David, watching from his window, felt his chest constrict. He spent his weekends fixing his beat-up sedan. The constant financial strain was a pressure cooker, ready to blow. He clenched his fists. The effortless ease with which Mr. Thompson lived his life was maddening.

He spun away from the window, finding it difficult to breathe. He needed to get out of the house.

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