annoyed - Story 6645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ascended agonizingly slowly. John kept tapping his foot, each tap a physical manifestation of his simmering discontent. The metallic box felt increasingly claustrophobic. The announcement, a terse email dropped during his lunch break, had poisoned his afternoon. He pictured the corporate vultures circling, the new owners dismantling everything he’d helped build. When the doors finally opened, he practically bolted out, eager to get back to his desk.

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