annoyed - Story 6846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could feel the music reverberating in his chest. John paused mid-sentence, the words catching in his throat. His blood was beginning to boil, a slow burn of frustration. The incessant boom-boom-boom was making it impossible to hold a coherent thought.

He’d invited his boss and a few colleagues over for dinner. This, he thought, was an utter disaster. He attempted to smile at his guests, but the gesture felt strained.

"I am so sorry," he said, forcing a chuckle. "I'll be right back." He marched to the window.

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