annoyed - Story 6706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and there was Chad. He launched into a story about a prank he pulled at Camp Firefly. Sarah didn’t even look at him. She averted her eyes. She wanted to escape. She felt her face burn.

She just wanted the elevator to move. The air felt thick.

“And then, we put a…,” Chad started. She slammed her finger on the ‘close door’ button repeatedly.

The doors, finally, began to shut. Relief flooded her. “See you later, Chad,” she managed, her voice trembling slightly.

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