annoyed - Story 6358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of old paper and mothballs filled the attic. David ran a hand through his hair, his brow furrowed. He scanned the shelves, each one overflowing with forgotten belongings.

He grabbed an old, leather-bound journal and flicked through the brittle pages. He threw it back down. The whole situation grated on him. It was a complete waste of his time.

He felt his stomach twist with the realization of the extra hours this would involve. He turned and started towards the stairs, his footsteps echoing in the silence.

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