annoyed - Story 6526 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is a joke, right?” Daniel said, his voice strained. He glared at the computer screen, the headline screaming about his literary hero, Alistair Finch. The man was a fraud. He started pacing his small apartment. Finch had stolen from him, from so many, and he couldn’t seem to process it. He wanted to break something. He wanted to tear everything down. He stopped pacing, suddenly exhausted. He sat heavily on his sofa, his shoulders slumped.

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