annoyed - Story 6890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant renovations next door had been a source of distraction for months. Today, however, the noise was unbearable. Sam, hunched over his laptop, felt his teeth grind.

He’d been trying to focus, but the hammering, the drilling, the constant activity, made it impossible. He closed his eyes, his hands clenched into fists.

The sight of the newly installed marble fountain in the neighbor's garden, visible through a gap in the fence, felt like a deliberate provocation. His temples began to throb.

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