annoyed - Story 6163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The string quartet's saccharine melodies grated on Jessica’s ears. She fiddled with the strap of her dress, suddenly acutely aware of how exposed she felt. The silk felt itchy against her skin. Why did she let Maya talk her into this?

Her gaze locked with his across the room. The familiar ache in her chest returned, a dull throb. She had to get away.

"Everything alright?" her best friend, Liam, asked, concern etching his features. "Fine," she managed, her voice strained. She needed air, space, a different planet. She excused herself, practically running towards the patio.

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