annoyed - Story 6220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain was hammering against the window, the sound a constant drumbeat. Across the small table, James told the story of their high school play. He was the star.

He rubbed his temples.

The facts were askew. *He* had been forced to take the role when James had fallen ill. *He* was also the one who'd saved the show. He was now the supporting character.

“I was brilliant, wasn’t I?” James said with a laugh.

James stared out at the rainy street. He didn't want to 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