He stared at the laundry basket, overflowing with his clothes, sitting smack dab in the middle of the hallway. He'd done his own laundry for ten years, why the sudden change? He had to step over it. His mother was in the kitchen, making her famous lasagna, the smell of which now felt heavy and inescapable.

His phone buzzed. A job offer, a potential escape. He glanced at the laundry basket again.

He really just needed to get out of this house.

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