annoyed - Story 6788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The website was slick, all polished angles and soft lighting. He felt a sharp pang of something unpleasant as he scanned the listing. The old oak tree, his refuge as a child, was now just a 'mature specimen' on a meticulously manicured lawn.

He closed his eyes for a moment, picturing the faces of the people he had grown up with, who now likely no longer existed. He felt his hands begin to tremble.

He opened his eyes, and a single tear escaped. He wiped it away, got up, and went for a run.

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