The vibrant colors of the felt tip pens seemed to mock Daniel as he approached the table. He'd promised to help Lily with her art project. The project, predictably, involved Barnaby. He stopped at the doorway, a knot forming in his stomach.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to do something else, anything else. He backed away, mumbling something about a phone call.

His shoulders slumped as he retreated. He needed a distraction, something to take his mind off the ever-present, smiling figure. He went to make a coffee.

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