The morning sun, usually a welcome sight, felt like a personal affront. Sarah squinted, the brightness amplifying her burgeoning displeasure. Her keys, clutched so tightly they were leaving indentations in her palm, trembled as she approached the empty space where her trusty Corolla usually resided. A knot formed in her stomach, a familiar prelude to a very bad day.

She stomped towards the offending tow truck driver, whose face was a study in placid indifference. “What in the world is going on here?” she demanded, her voice tight with suppressed fury. He gestured towards a barely visible sign, the letters so small they seemed designed to infuriate.

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