annoyed - Story 6130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just great," muttered Maria, her voice flat. Her son’s first ever football game was today. She had spent weeks prepping snacks and a banner. Now, stuck in the purgatory of the airport, her meticulously planned day was unraveling.

She pulled at the collar of her shirt. The fabric felt restrictive, almost suffocating. The constant drone of announcements, the endless stream of excuses, amplified her exasperation. She closed her eyes briefly, trying to contain the tempest brewing inside her.

She looked at her watch. The hands spun, mocking her. She walked briskly to the restroom, and splashed cold water on her face.

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