annoyed - Story 6058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the pawn shop was thick with a stale, metallic odor that made Ava want to gag. She had spent the last week wrestling with a spreadsheet for work. She felt like her brain had turned to mush. She needed a distraction and instead, she was here. This was just her luck.

The ring. Her grandmother's ring. She knew the cut of the stone, the way the light hit it. This had to be a cruel joke. "How much is that?" she said, the words coming out more like a bark.

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