annoyed - Story 6618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive was longer than necessary. Michael had taken the scenic route, hoping to postpone the inevitable. He’d rehearsed the speech, the words tasting like ash in his mouth.

He entered the packed ballroom, the noise hitting him like a physical blow. The festive atmosphere felt… wrong. He scanned the room, looking for an escape route.

He leaned against a wall, crossing his arms. The speech was coming. He could feel it. The dread. The… whatever it was. He was ready to get it over with.

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