My jaw clenched as I watched the two burly men wrestle with the fence posts. The sun was beating down, and I was trying to relax. Now this. It was bad enough that the property line was practically touching my prized rose bushes.

A vein throbbed in my temple. I considered going out there, but I knew what would happen. I’d lose it. Instead, I retreated inside, slamming the screen door with unnecessary force.

"Honey, what's wrong?" my wife asked, peering from the kitchen. "That new fence," I growled, "is going to ruin my view."

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