The aroma of freshly baked cookies, usually a comfort, felt suffocating. His mother had always used baked goods to try to cheer him up. He wanted to scream. He was not a child.

She offered him a cookie, her eyes filled with concern. He forced a smile. The saccharine sweetness of the gesture, the cloying scent of vanilla, the whole situation was overwhelming.

He took the cookie, and then immediately bit into it. He knew he was being rude, but he couldn't help it.

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
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🤬0.245
fucking0.239
Suppressed:
own-0.352
渗透-0.251
gradually-0.234
unfolding-0.226
超越-0.224