irritated - Story 78961 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the apartment felt thick, pressing against Amelia’s skin as she rummaged through the junk drawer. A clatter of mismatched spoons and tangled charging cables met her ears. Where *was* that blasted tape measure? Liam, bless his heart, had a knack for misplacing things. Especially things that Amelia needed.

She finally unearthed it, buried beneath a mountain of takeout menus. As she pulled it free, a small, leather-bound notebook slipped out. Her breath hitched. That wasn't Liam's. He was strictly a digital guy. Curiosity, and something akin to a nagging headache, compelled her to open it.

The first page was simply titled: "Bucket List." Amelia felt a surge of… annoyance. He'd never mentioned a bucket list.

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