annoyed - Story 6418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign of the diner cast an irritating strobe effect over the wet pavement. Michael was late for a meeting. Late again. He saw it: a brown wallet. He bent down, scooped it up, and felt the familiar surge of frustration.

He opened it, revealing a thick stack of bills. Just what he needed. His stomach churned. This was a nightmare. He just wanted to go home.

"Son of a…" he started to mumble before trailing off, and slamming the wallet shut.

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