The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now felt like an assault on Jack’s senses. He slammed the lid of the coffee pot with more force than necessary, sloshing some of the dark liquid onto the countertop. He had spent months, *months*, crafting his final proposal, working towards this big moment. He'd envisioned the final sign off, the nod of approval. Now, silence. Just a curt email. He scrubbed at his face, the frustration simmering inside.

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