annoyed - Story 6179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was crushing. Jessica stared out the window, the passing scenery blurring into a meaningless stream of colors. Michael had been prattling on about his "leadership role" at a marketing agency. She had learned from a coworker, he was a data entry clerk. She couldn’t bring herself to meet his eyes. A bitter taste lingered in her mouth. She felt a burning pressure in her chest, a silent condemnation. “Are you enjoying the drive?” he asked. She did not answer.

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