annoyed - Story 6268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the hockey rink felt frigid, mirroring the icy grip of disappointment in Ethan's gut. The echoing announcements of the starting lineup felt like blows. He gripped his hockey stick, the familiar wood offering no comfort. He hadn't even made the cut for the development team. He watched the lucky few glide onto the ice, their faces alight with anticipation. He imagined the coach's nonchalant shrug, the standard platitudes. He slammed the stick against the bench.

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