irritated - Story 78987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Condo? You've got to be kidding me.” Maria’s voice was sharp as she spoke to her cat, who was enjoying a sunbath on the windowsill. The cat blinked slowly, seemingly unfazed.

She paced back and forth across the small living room, her steps quick and agitated. Her jaw was clenched, and she kept flexing her fingers.

She felt a prickly heat rising up her neck. She grabbed her phone and started scrolling through real estate websites, her thumb moving with impatient speed.

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