The aroma of freshly mowed grass was replaced by the smell of treated lumber. It was not a welcome change. David glared through the kitchen window, watching his neighbor, Kevin, effortlessly maneuver the power tools.

David's shoulders slumped. He had spent the morning carefully weeding his prize-winning petunias. Now, it was all for naught. He knew the fence would cast a shadow, and he knew he would be stuck with the job of maintaining the fence.

He needed to change the channel on the TV. He wanted something on to distract him.

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