irritated - Story 78906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What the hell," Maya muttered, throwing her textbook onto the bed. The weight of the world felt heavy on her shoulders. She wanted to throw something, but she knew that would only make the situation worse. She ran a hand through her hair, the strands tangling in her fingers. The university. Gone. Just like that.

Her phone buzzed with an incoming text. Her mom. ‘Are you okay?’ Her jaw clenched. She needed to tell her. She needed to figure out what to do. Transfer? Drop out? She buried her face in her hands, letting out a frustrated groan.

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