irritated - Story 78898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crinkled loudly as it was folded into a small, tight square. Michael didn't want to look at it anymore, at the ugly number that mocked his efforts. He shoved it deep into his backpack, nearly ripping the fabric in the process. He marched, with a stiff, unnatural gait, towards the cafeteria, ignoring the greetings of his friends. He couldn’t even stomach the thought of food.

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