annoyed - Story 6478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box practically screamed at him from the doormat. “To the Occupant.” Well, that was helpful. He recognized the return address - a subscription box, something for plants. He felt his hands clench.

He had spent the morning cleaning. He had a mountain of work waiting for him. The last thing he wanted was another chore. He didn't have any plants.

He grabbed the package and tossed it into the recycling bin, slamming the lid shut. Hopefully, that would be the end of it.

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