annoyed - Story 6770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank space where the willow tree, the one he'd always loved, used to stand. He felt a cold wave wash over him, leaving him chilled. He blinked, trying to clear his vision.

He'd planned to come back here, to sit beneath its shade with his kids and his grandkids. Now that was impossible.

He kicked at the loose dirt, sending a small cloud of dust into the air. He wanted to go home and bury himself in the sheets, never to come out again.

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