irritated - Story 78939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lilies. Again. He just stood there, staring at the white blooms with an unfamiliar tightness in his gut. The delivery guy had vanished. He felt the muscles in his neck tighten. No. Card.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. His hands shook as he closed the door, the floral scent now a weapon. He needed to get away, to be alone.

He strode into the backyard, his pace rapid. He grabbed the shovel and began digging, the action a furious rhythm in his silent world. The scent of the lilies, even out here, seemed to follow him.

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