annoyed - Story 6765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride had been long, but nothing prepared him for this. The spot where the apple tree, the one his grandfather had planted, should've been, was gone. Just a flattened space and some wood chips remained.

He slammed his fist against the car door, the metal vibrating against his palm. He wanted to scream, to curse, to lash out. He wanted to undo this.

He focused on his breathing. He had to be calm. He had to… he kicked a loose stone across the gravel. And what was he going to do?

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