annoyed - Story 6658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer jammed. The computer crashed. The office air conditioning unit was broken. It was one of those days. He was teetering on the edge of a breakdown when a text message lit up the screen. The message read: "I can't believe he actually asked! I'm so happy!" Intended for his colleague, it was instead received by his stoic grandmother. His shoulders slumped. He dragged a hand through his hair and then began to type a message to the colleague, and then another to his grandmother.

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