annoyed - Story 6523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with Saturday morning chatter, but Sarah felt the cacophony press in on her. The newspaper article, detailing the scandal surrounding her favorite author, Charles Blackwood, lay open on the table, the ink smudging under her restless fingers. The words swam before her eyes. How could someone she’d admired so completely be capable of such a thing? She gripped her mug, the ceramic cool against her palm. She took a large gulp, scalding her mouth. She barely noticed.

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