annoyed - Story 6781 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The website's cheery photos of the old house practically vibrated with forced optimism. He scrolled through, his jaw clenched. That damn porch swing, now painted a nauseating pastel green, always creaked at the worst possible moments. He'd spent countless summer afternoons attempting to fix it, only to fail.

A knot formed in his stomach. The listing bragged about the 'charming original hardwood floors'. He remembered the countless splinters he’d gotten crawling around those floors, searching for lost Lego pieces.

He slammed the laptop shut with a loud *thwack*. He needed a drink, a strong one.

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