The air conditioning blasted a frigid wind, amplifying the tension in the boarding area. Emily tapped her foot against the tiled floor, the rhythm a rapid counterpoint to the slow-moving hands of the clock. Her crucial business meeting, a deal she'd worked months to secure, was slipping away.

She opened her laptop and typed a frantic email to her colleagues, explaining the situation. Then, she slammed it shut. The email could wait. She needed to move, needed to *do* something. She felt a suffocating pressure in her chest, a physical manifestation of her mounting frustration.

She grabbed a magazine, ripping a page out of 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
0.249
🤬0.245
fucking0.239
Suppressed:
own-0.352
渗透-0.251
gradually-0.234
unfolding-0.226
超越-0.224