annoyed - Story 6159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to focus on the presentation, but his mind kept drifting back to the news. He saw the announcement on his competitor's profile, a proud photo of them at the company. He clenched his jaw.

He tried to keep his voice level, but he found his tone sharp, his instructions curt. His team members looked at him with an understandable wariness. He felt as if the air around him was electrified.

He stopped mid-sentence, the words catching in his throat. He just wanted it to be over, to escape this situation and its associated feelings. He needed a drink, immediately.

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