annoyed - Story 6346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost tripped over it. The teddy bear, its fur matted and its stitching coming undone, lay discarded near a bin overflowing with broken toys. Liam stopped, his fingers clenching into fists. He had come to the yard sale to find a decent coffee table. Now this.

He recognized the bear, though it had changed. He felt a wave of… *something* wash over him. His childhood teddy bear, Mr. Snuggles. He must have left him behind.

He looked over at the man running the sale, who was watching him expectantly.

He had to get out of there. Now.

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