The scent of crayons and glue hung heavy in the air. Michael, Lily's uncle, surveyed the current project, a sprawling canvas depicting Barnaby in a spaceship constructed entirely of glitter. The glitter seemed to mock him, catching the light and reflecting it back into his eyes. He blinked, a sharp pang of frustration lancing through him.

He cleared his throat. He just wanted to watch some sports. To relax. The constant presence of the imaginary friend made it impossible. He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten.

He forced a smile. "Wow, Lily," he said, the words feeling tight and unnatural. He couldn't wait to escape the room.

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