annoyed - Story 6318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken things. She watched, her eyebrows raised, as John struggled to construct a sentence in her language, Swahili. He’d started it after they had visited her family.

He paused, a wrinkle forming between his eyebrows. It was a mistake, an obvious mistake. He had mispronounced a crucial word.

She took a long sip of her tea. "You know," she said, her voice steady, "That's… *interesting*." She did not elaborate.

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