The meticulously organized calendar on the kitchen wall seemed to shout at him. Everything had been planned, scheduled, down to the last detail. Now, everything was being uprooted.

His sister, Olivia, was in the kitchen, preparing a meal that smelled of unfamiliar spices. He knew the kitchen like the back of his hand, but now it felt foreign to him. He was at a loss.

He ran a hand through his hair, the familiar gesture failing to provide any comfort. He felt a sudden, fierce resentment. He walked out of the room, slamming the door, and went to the garage to work on his car.

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:
l0.376
😠0.251
0.249
🤬0.245
fucking0.239
Suppressed:
own-0.352
渗透-0.251
gradually-0.234
unfolding-0.226
超越-0.224