annoyed - Story 6496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That’s impossible," Claire breathed, her voice barely a whisper. She re-read the patent application details. The solar-powered charging backpack. Her life's work. Already patented. She slumped into her chair, the air feeling suddenly heavy, thick.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a sense of betrayal, not necessarily toward the other inventor, but towards the universe, which seemed intent on thwarting her ambitions. She leaned back, her gaze fixed on the ceiling, her mind replaying all the obstacles she'd overcome.

She felt a prickling sensation behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to tears. She swiveled slowly in her chair, the rhythmic creaks of the wheels the only sound in the room. She felt a burning sensation in her throat.

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