annoyed - Story 6287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request popped up during her online yoga class, the intrusion jarring. *Ryan Peterson*. She nearly choked on her water. Her face flushed. She closed her eyes, trying to focus on her breathing, but the image of *him* was burned onto the inside of her eyelids.

The teacher’s gentle instructions seemed incredibly irritating. "Inhale…exhale…let go…" She wanted to scream. She wanted to throw her laptop across the room. She just wanted to be left alone.

She ended the session early, making a hasty excuse. She felt like she couldn’t breathe. Grabbing her phone, she promptly rejected the request and deleted the app.

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