annoyed - Story 6848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The persistent whine of the leaf blower next door sliced through the tranquility of the afternoon. George squeezed his eyes shut. It’d been going for an hour now, and it was driving him up the wall.

He rubbed his temples. He was trying to take a nap, but the high-pitched drone was relentless, piercing his attempts at relaxation. He sat up, pushing the covers away.

He threw on his slippers, grumbling under his breath. He hated confrontation, but this was too much.

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