annoyed - Story 6917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, usually a source of comfort, felt like a spotlight on the confrontation. Martha heard the rap on the door and prepared herself. It was Mr. Harrison, his face etched with a fake concern.

“Martha, dear! Just wondering about that poor old pine. It's really casting a shadow over my rose bushes." He waved a dismissive hand towards the tree.

She felt a wave of cold wash over her. She knew this was coming.

He launched into a litany of complaints about needles and sap. She closed her eyes for a moment, picturing the tree's sturdy trunk and lush branches.

"I need to consider it," she said, her voice a flat monotone. The words felt like a betrayal. She felt a burning need to leave.

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