The air conditioning was failing. It was warm and stuffy in the ballroom, adding to the general feeling of unpleasantness. Mark felt a prickly heat rise up his neck.

There she was. Talking with a group of people, looking beautiful. His fists clenched as he spotted her.

He quickly made a beeline for the bar, needing a stiff drink. The bartender, sensing his mood, wordlessly poured him a double. He just needed to get through this and be done with 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