annoyed - Story 6974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification pinged, and the subject line blazed: "Garden Request." A slow burn started in her chest. She already knew who it was from, and what it was about.

Opening the email, her gaze immediately landed on the smiley face at the end of the first paragraph. That forced cheerfulness was just… everything.

“I was hoping I could plant some herbs along your fence,” the email read, “They will look lovely!” She bit her lip and deleted the email. It wasn't the herbs themselves, but the thought of the whole thing. The mess, the conversations, the… everything. The next one would be about the tomatoes. She just knew it.

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