The TV blasted from the living room, drowning out the silence he craved. The news. His father's incessant habit. The same stories. The same anxieties. The same everything. It was all too familiar. It was all too much.

He retreated to his childhood bedroom, the walls covered in old posters. It felt smaller now, and the bed felt harder. He shut the door and collapsed on the bed, all of his pent-up feelings threatening to spill over.

He pressed his palms against his eyes.

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