irritated - Story 78916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, the tree," she began, the casual tone grating on his nerves. He stood in his doorway, arms crossed, trying to appear nonchalant. But he knew his posture betrayed him.

He knew what she wanted. He already knew. The very idea made him want to stomp on the ground.

He took a slow, deliberate breath, forcing himself to remain calm. He could feel the pulse in his temple begin to hammer. "And what," he asked, his voice deliberately measured, "is the problem with the tree?"

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