irritated - Story 78917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of the ice in his whiskey glass was far louder than usual, a percussive beat accompanying his thoughts. Another encroachment. Another intrusion.

He stared out at the offending tree, its leaves rustling in the breeze, a scene of serene beauty, as if mocking him. That woman, with her endless requests.

He swirled the amber liquid in his glass, the motion almost violent. He’d just wanted to have a peaceful evening, and now… now this.

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