annoyed - Story 6999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scrolled through the website, his fingers tapping a restless rhythm against the desk. "The Secret Life of a Lawn Gnome," the essay read. He had written it years ago, feeling vulnerable and exposed. He felt a familiar knot forming in his throat.

The photo accompanying the essay was even worse: a picture of him, awkward and grinning, taken during his college orientation. He wanted to vanish. He grabbed his keys and jacket, needing desperately to get away, to walk, to breathe away the feeling of being suffocated by his own words.

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