annoyed - Story 6221 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung thick and dusty, catching in Maya’s throat. She coughed, swatting at a cobweb that had decided to drape itself across her face. A forgotten box, labeled in her mother’s meticulously neat handwriting: “Maya’s Memories.” She'd braced herself for photo albums, not this – endless manila folders spilling forth a lifetime of scribbled poems and elementary school science projects. A tremor of exasperation ran through her.

She yanked open a folder labeled "5th Grade - The American Revolution." A crayon drawing of George Washington, looking suspiciously like a potato, stared back at her. Her mother had clearly kept everything, down to the cruddy construction paper snowflakes from Christmas. Why? She felt a tightening in her chest, a prickling heat behind her eyelids.

With a frustrated grunt, Maya slammed the folder shut, the sound echoing in the cavernous space. Why did her mom have to be like this?

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