annoyed - Story 6319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My hands clenched into fists beneath the table. I heard him, through the chatter of the restaurant, stumble over a simple phrase in my language, Russian. He thought he was doing something romantic.

I stared at the tablecloth, counting the tiny embroidered flowers. I wanted to leave, but I knew that wouldn't help.

I forced a smile. "That’s… *sweet*," I said, the words barely audible. I did not meet his gaze.

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