annoyed - Story 6836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always claimed to be "financially responsible." Liam was sure he saw a tremor in his hand as he reviewed the account details. Underneath the veneer of responsible, there it was: a substantial nest egg.

He leaned back in his chair, the leather creaking under his weight. A dull ache began in his temples. He was going to have to make a lasagna tonight. The thought of chopping vegetables, of standing for hours over a hot stove, did not appeal to him.

He pushed the laptop away from him and stared out the window. The world seemed overly bright.

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