irritated - Story 78949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her teeth ground together. The manuscript lay open on the kitchen counter, a beacon of betrayal. She had been the inspiration for the main character in his book, that much was clear. But the details…the liberties he'd taken… each one of them was a wound.

She slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the empty apartment. The thought of confronting him made her want to retreat into herself. She was not a character, she was a person!

He'd left a note on the fridge. "Back late tonight, love you." She ripped the note from the fridge, crumpling it into a tight ball. She dropped it to the floor and stomped on it.

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