annoyed - Story 6975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the gate opening made him jump. He'd been meticulously trimming the roses, each snip calculated to create the perfect arch. He turned to find Mr. Peterson beaming, a gardening magazine tucked under his arm.

“Say, young man, your yard is a vision! I was wondering…” He trailed off, his gaze drifting towards a patch of sun-drenched soil near the fence line. The implication was immediate.

"Yes?" he said, his tone flat. He gripped the pruning shears tighter, feeling the metal bite into his palm.

"I have these beautiful heirloom tomatoes. Such a shame they don't get enough light in my plot." He launched into a lengthy description of the perfect tomato, the perfect soil. He couldn't hear another word.

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