annoyed - Story 6018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride was an exercise in stifled frustration. Her son, Ethan, sat beside her, his face serene, humming softly. The radio played a saccharine pop song that grated on her nerves. The air conditioning was on full blast, but she felt hot and bothered.

She had tried to talk to him, to understand. But the new faith seemed to have altered him, separating them by a wall of unfamiliar language and beliefs.

“Are you sure about this, Ethan?” she asked, her voice barely above a whisper. He simply smiled, a beatific expression that only intensified her ire. She stared at the road, her knuckles white on the steering wheel.

Emotion: annoyed

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.59 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.27

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion annoyed. 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 annoyed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the annoyed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the annoyed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.376
`😠`	0.251
`骂`	0.249
`🤬`	0.245
`fucking`	0.239

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.352
`渗透`	-0.251
`gradually`	-0.234
`unfolding`	-0.226
`超越`	-0.224