annoyed - Story 6827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio felt muted to Alex. He glared at the canvas across the room, at the brushstrokes that mirrored his own. He was supposed to be the visionary, the one with the original concepts. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth.

He picked up a brush, snapping the bristles against the canvas in a vicious gesture.

“So, you’re also exploring the theme of existential dread through the lens of abstract expressionism?” he asked through gritted teeth.

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