irritated - Story 78946 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“And then, she bursts into tears, completely irrational, and storms off,” he read aloud, his voice dripping with dramatic flair. Liam slammed the laptop shut. The audacity. It was as if he wanted to punish her.

The story was nothing but a collection of half-truths and exaggerations. Everything about it grated on her, from the flowery prose to the thinly veiled caricature of herself.

She crossed her arms, a muscle twitching in her jaw. "Is that really how you see me, Leo?" Her voice was flat, devoid of emotion. He looked up, his expression innocent. "It's just…art, honey." She turned away, a knot forming in the pit of her stomach. The room felt suddenly too small.

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