annoyed - Story 6167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The perfect lighting, the perfect setting, the perfectly curated guest list… It was all nauseatingly perfect. Alex took a deep breath, trying to steady his frayed nerves. He wished he'd stayed home.

He spotted her leaning against a pillar, laughing with someone. The sight was like a punch to the gut. He felt the familiar constriction in his chest, the urge to flee.

He took a slow, deliberate sip of his scotch. He hated the way his pulse was racing. He hated the way he was still affected.

He excused himself, claiming he needed to “use the facilities”, and headed for the opposite end of the room.

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