annoyed - Story 6406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Look at this painting!” Chloe exclaimed, pointing at a portrait of their grandmother. Her brother, Daniel, barely glanced at it, his gaze fixed on his phone.

The air in the house was heavy with the ghosts of past disagreements, the smell of aged wood and forgotten grievances. Chloe found herself unable to breathe, her nostrils felt like they were shrinking.

“Well, aren’t you interested?” she finally asked, her voice tight. Daniel sighed dramatically, finally tearing his attention away from his device. He was going to make the entire process miserable.

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