annoyed - Story 6116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We need you to play center, Maria," the basketball coach announced, his voice steady. Maria, the team's star point guard, felt a wave of incredulity wash over her. Center? She, who was known for her lightning-fast dribbling and pinpoint passes?

A pressure built behind her eyes. Her stomach lurched. The court, which usually felt like an extension of herself, suddenly seemed vast and unfriendly. She glanced at the rim, far away, and felt a cold dread.

“I… I’ll try,” she said finally, her voice sounding small, distant even to her own ears. Her hands were clammy.

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