irritated - Story 78988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator jolted to a stop between floors, trapping Kevin inside. He slammed his fist against the control panel, a sharp, angry thud. “Damn it!” he barked out loud.

The sudden darkness and stifling air only amplified the simmering resentment that had been building inside him since he read the notice. The condo conversion was the final straw.

He leaned against the metal wall, his breath coming in short, shallow gasps. The minutes crawled by, each one a torment. He imagined the smug smiles of the new owners, the endless rules and regulations.

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