irritated - Story 78989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news seemed to suck the air from her lungs. She stared blankly at the notice, her grip tightening on the doorknob. Her throat felt tight.

The familiar sights and sounds of her apartment, the scent of lavender from her diffuser, the faint hum of the refrigerator, suddenly felt alien, fragile. Her heart began to race.

She grabbed her phone and scrolled through her contacts, searching for a sympathetic ear. She needed to vent, to scream, to do anything but sit still.

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