annoyed - Story 6960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at the dirt around the metal box, sending a small cloud of dust into the air. He hadn't asked for this. He'd come to the woods for a peaceful walk, not to unearth some bizarre reminder of a past he couldn't quite place. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the tension that prickled his skin.

He managed to open the rusty lid. The contents were mundane: a compass, a crumpled map, and a photograph of a younger him. He stared at the picture for a moment, then, with a sigh, he replaced the lid, deciding he'd come back to it later.

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