annoyed - Story 6390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the half-eaten plate of pasta. The waiter’s incessant attempts at small talk felt like needles poking at his nerves. Across from him, a man he'd never seen before was droning on about a sailing trip he'd taken with someone. His date, Daniel, was notoriously late. A wave of heat washed over him as Daniel waltzed in, accompanied by the man from across the table. They embraced, grinning. He pushed his plate away, a strange hollowness filling his chest.

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