annoyed - Story 6349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless chatter of the other shoppers grated on her nerves. She'd come in search of a vintage lamp, a specific piece she'd been tracking for weeks. Nothing. Just more disappointment.

And then, there it was. A battered, almost unrecognizable teddy bear. She knew it instantly. Her childhood bear, Archibald. He was missing an ear, and half his fur was gone.

"Looks like he's seen better days, huh?" The man running the sale, leaned in, clearly anticipating a purchase.

She felt a throbbing sensation behind her eyes. Why did this have to happen now? "How much?" she asked.

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