irritated - Story 78969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a prickling sensation behind my eyes as I searched for the lost receipt. It was nowhere to be found. "Of course," I mumbled to myself. Liam was always so disorganized. He couldn't find his own socks.

As I shifted through the pile of bills and old mail on the counter, I saw a notebook. It wasn't his. I flipped it open, and the top of the page read, “Before I kick the bucket…” A wave of heat washed over me.

"Learn to scuba dive. Write a book. See the aurora borealis." I felt a sudden urge to… do something. I didn't know what, but something.

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