annoyed - Story 6488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old oak tree in the front yard. The treehouse built by his father. Everything was getting ripped out, piece by piece. Michael stood with his arms crossed, watching the scene unfold.

A bitter taste coated his tongue. He had tried to stop the sale, to persuade his siblings. They wouldn’t budge. He felt a throbbing pulse in his forehead. He hated the way his fists kept tightening and loosening at his sides.

The chainsaw whirred again, and a loud crack echoed through the air. The tree, his tree, was coming down. He turned his back, not wanting to watch the final act.

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