annoyed - Story 6097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant sound of his younger brother's video game, blasting from downstairs, grated on his nerves. He'd been back for a week, and already the house felt too small, the walls closing in. He'd been looking for somewhere to move, anywhere, but nothing had turned up yet.

He slammed his laptop shut, the screen reflecting his own displeased face. He couldn't focus. He needed silence, space, something. Anything.

He took a frustrated breath, and began pacing the room.

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