The clatter of metal, the whine of the drill. I had specifically requested that the contractors do this *after* the dog's nap time. The dog was now barking, a high-pitched, frantic yipping, bouncing off the walls. I felt my chest tighten.

I grabbed the leash, and yanked the dog towards the door. The animal's whining was making me sick. We needed to get out of here.

I thought, "You've got to be kidding me."

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