annoyed - Story 6193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email was innocuous enough: "Welcome to Grade 2, from Ms. Davies!" But the subject line, the cheerful picture of a smiling cartoon owl, sparked an internal turmoil in Emily. She knew that name. The name that still held a certain…charge.

She immediately opened her childhood photo album. Sure enough, there was a picture of a wide-eyed, braces-wearing Emily, holding a certificate signed by… Ms. Davies. Her lip curled slightly.

Emily reread the email twice, meticulously searching for any indication that the teacher had changed. She found none. She needed to take a walk.

She pulled on a jacket, the zipper catching. The thought of facing this woman again made her want to run a marathon.

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