annoyed - Story 6579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew he should just walk away. But he couldn't. Ben stood across the street, watching her, he knew it was her. He crossed the road and approached her cautiously. “Laura? Laura Davies? I know it's been years, but…” he trailed off, unsure how to continue.

She gave him a polite smile, her eyes questioning. “I’m sorry, but I don’t recognize you.” Her voice was soft but firm.

Ben just stood there, the words hanging heavy in the air. He felt a sharp sting, a feeling as if the world tilted. He turned and walked away, not stopping.

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