annoyed - Story 6126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the television screen displaying the news. A familiar, twisting sensation coiled within him. His flight to the countryside had been rescheduled, yet again. He was supposed to be seeing his terminally ill father this afternoon. He felt his jaw tighten, the muscles in his neck constricting. He closed his eyes, momentarily overwhelmed.

He opened them and focused on the screen, where some perky reporter was covering a completely irrelevant story. His teeth ground together. He wanted to smash something.

He breathed deeply. He would call his father, and make the best of it.

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