The whole street was in chaos. The trucks, the materials, the workers shouting at each other. Now the fence was going up. I was trying to have a pleasant dinner, but it was ruined.

I slammed my fork down on the table, the tines scraping against the ceramic. My husband looked up, his brow furrowed. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"Everything!" I snapped, pushing back my chair. "It's all ruined." I couldn't bear to be there. I stomped to the front door, grabbed my keys, and stormed out, slamming the door behind 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