annoyed - Story 6486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is it, then,” her mother chirped, her voice too bright. David didn’t reply. He glared at the bulldozer, an enormous metal beast that seemed to leer back at him. He felt his stomach churn.

He’d inherited the house; his siblings, relieved, hadn’t wanted it. Now, it was his responsibility to oversee its destruction. A responsibility he felt he never asked for. He clenched and unclenched his fists, struggling to keep his expression neutral.

His mother, still humming, began pointing out the “improvements” that the new house would offer. He simply stared blankly ahead.

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