annoyed - Story 6382 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a prickling heat behind his eyes, a tightness in his jaw. The stupid waiter, with his incessant, saccharine compliments about the "lovely couple," had already gotten on his nerves. Then the woman across from him, who'd been regaling him with tales of her exciting trip to Italy, started to mention this man, Mark, and how perfect he was. It was then that the door opened, and Mark walked in. He saw the woman and grinned widely, rushing over to pull her into a hug. The waiter's gushing now sounded like nails on a chalkboard. It was all a bit much. He wanted to scream.

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