annoyed - Story 6182 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, the insistent rhythm a counterpoint to the distant voice on the other end of the line. Sarah had been glued to her phone all week. Every time he tried to join her in the living room, she’d abruptly shut herself in the bedroom. He shifted in his seat, the leather of the car sticking uncomfortably to his back. He didn't like the feeling of being shut out, of being kept at arm's length. He switched the engine off with a snap.

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