annoyed - Story 6456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ripped open the envelope, the paper tearing roughly. The words on the results swam before his eyes. He had always thought he was a Smith, just like his father and grandfather. Now, the name felt alien, a label that didn't quite fit. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach.

He threw the results onto the table, scattering the accompanying brochures. He pushed away from the table, pacing the room. The comfortable familiarity of his home suddenly felt like a cage. He couldn’t sit still.

"What a joke," he said, his voice laced with a cold edge.

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