annoyed - Story 6288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email alert sounded, a high-pitched whine that grated on Leo's nerves. He squinted at the screen. *Ashley Riley*. His fingers tightened around his pen. He felt his shoulders slump.

He hadn't thought about her in years. He'd tried to forget. He’d actually succeeded. Now, with a simple click, the past was attempting to claw its way back. He wanted to scream.

He ran a hand through his hair. He hadn’t felt this agitated in a long time. He should probably get back to work. But somehow, he couldn’t bring himself to do it. He closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, trying to regain his composure.

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