annoyed - Story 6170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The speeches dragged on, each platitude a fresh stab. Every forced laugh felt like a betrayal. I wanted to scream.

He was standing right by the buffet, grabbing a handful of mini-sandwiches. The casualness, the audacity of it all… It was almost too much to bear.

I took a deep breath, forcing a smile. “So,” I began to the person next to me, my voice a little too high, “did you know the bride and groom met at…” I trailed off. I couldn’t even finish the sentence. I excused myself and headed for the bathroom to splash cold water on my 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