annoyed - Story 6896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the bright red "C-" on the top of the test paper, a paper he'd spent countless hours preparing for. A cold wave washed over him. He felt his hands begin to sweat, and a dull ache throbbed behind his eyes. He slowly pushed himself away from the table, his chair scraping loudly. He felt as if he'd been punched in the gut. He wanted to tear the paper into pieces and burn it. Instead, he simply walked away, his shoulders slumping.

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