annoyed - Story 6244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The receptionist's cheerful chatter felt like nails on a chalkboard. Ben forced a smile, a grimace really, as he absorbed the news. His medical records had been, apparently, accidentally… swapped. With another Mr. Henderson.

His fists clenched at his sides. He had a tight schedule today, a crucial meeting. And now he was stuck. He sat down, heavily, the cheap plastic chair squeaking in protest.

He felt the unwelcome pressure building in his temples. He needed those results *today*. The implications of the mix-up, the potential delays… he couldn't even begin to calculate the damage.

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