annoyed - Story 6660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d just finished an exhausting hike, his legs aching, his lungs burning. He’d hoped to unwind with a cold beer and a view. As he reached for the cooler, a buzz. The screen displayed: "I got the tickets! Can't wait!" It was from his brother, detailing their upcoming football game plans. The message had gone to his elderly neighbor. His jaw clenched. He set his beer down, and then he started typing a message, hoping it wouldn't cause any undue concern.

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