irritated - Story 78990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at a loose brick in the hallway, sending it clattering across the floor. "Great," he muttered, the word a sandpaper rasp against his teeth. The building was going condo. Fantastic.

He rubbed his temples, a headache already forming. He pictured the hassle, the packing, the endless searching. The whole prospect felt like a lead weight pressing down on him.

He slammed his apartment door shut behind him with unusual force, the sound echoing in the hallway. He felt his hands clench into fists.

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