annoyed - Story 6028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room felt thick, heavy. Eleanor stared at the picture Lily had just presented, featuring Barnaby riding a unicorn made of cotton balls. A vein throbbed in her temple. She tried to smile, but her lips felt stiff.

She wanted to be patient, supportive, the perfect aunt. But it was hard. She was just…tired. She felt a surge of heat rush up her neck.

She took a deep breath. She would suggest a different activity. A walk, perhaps. A trip to the park. Anything that didn't involve more Barnaby.

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