annoyed - Story 6956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the time capsule, the sunlight glinting off its metal casing. It had been buried deep within the park, unearthed by a recent storm. *Of all the…* he thought, his gaze hardening. He’d been hoping to relax, not to be confronted with some relic of his forgotten past.

He knelt, and forced open the rusted lid. A mix of childish trinkets and a crumpled photograph spilled out. He picked up the photograph, studying the smiling face of a younger version of himself. He tossed the whole lot back in, the action a curt dismissal.

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