annoyed - Story 6763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He squinted, shading his eyes from the harsh afternoon sun. The expanse of empty space where the redwood stood, the tree he and his sister had named 'Guardian', stung his eyes. He slowly circled the place, his boots crunching on the discarded sawdust. A bitter taste coated his tongue.

His shoulders slumped as he noticed the neatly stacked firewood, ready for a winter's fire. The thought of that wood burning and warming some stranger caused him a pang.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He was going to have words with someone, he decided. He just didn't know who yet.

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