He’d been running late already. John grabbed his briefcase, the leather familiar and comforting. The feeling quickly vanished when he stepped onto the drive. Where his car should have been, there was nothing. A hollow, desolate void.

He let out a short, sharp bark of laughter, a sound that held no amusement. His knuckles, white against the handle of his briefcase, betrayed his inner turmoil. He was going to have a *word* with someone.

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