annoyed - Story 6184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the small apartment, the worn wooden floorboards creaking under his weight. The scent of her perfume, normally a comfort, now felt cloying, suffocating. He’d heard the phone ringing again. She was probably whispering sweet nothings to someone. He stopped pacing, his hands curling into fists. He had planned to make her coffee this morning, but suddenly, the thought of any interaction was repulsive.

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