annoyed - Story 6995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian gave a gentle, understanding smile as Sarah entered the reading room. Sarah forced a smile back, but the muscles in her face felt stiff. “Can I help you?” the librarian asked. Sarah pointed towards a magazine, and the librarian fetched it for her.

The headline was blaring: "Exceptional Application Essays." Below, her essay's title, “Ode to a Run-Down Carousel.” Sarah wanted to tell her "No, you cannot help me." She felt a sudden, fierce urge to escape, to run far away from this sterile environment and this constant reminder of her past self. She cleared her throat, pushing away the feeling. "Thank you," she managed, her voice barely a whisper.

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