annoyed - Story 6749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a short, sharp bark of laughter. Then, he ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. It was always *something* with the Gordons. The maple in their yard had finally given way and now, their debris was covering his pool cover.

His teeth clenched. He'd been looking forward to a relaxing afternoon, and now? Now this. He imagined the phone calls, the paperwork, the whole frustrating process.

He kicked a pebble across the lawn, the motion filled with a suppressed energy.

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