The metallic tang of blood filled David’s mouth; he hadn't even bitten his tongue, which was a bad sign. He rubbed a hand over his tired face, leaving a smear of sleep in its wake. This was the straw that broke the camel's back. He couldn't believe it.

He surveyed the empty space where his pickup truck usually rested. The sun, suddenly harsh and glaring, seemed to mock him. He slowly turned toward the tow truck, his jaw set, and his mind full of vengeance.

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