annoyed - Story 6235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt smaller, more confined. Sarah stared at the phone. Her diary? Online? She felt a tightening in her chest. She needed to know who was behind this. The link was staring at her. It felt like her entire adolescence was exposed for the world to see, like being forced to go back in time.

She picked up a pen and started twisting it between her fingers, and a headache started to throb behind her eyes. She wanted to throw something. She should call her mother. But what could she even say?

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