“Well, this is just great,” Leo grumbled, the words escaping before he could stop them. He was standing in the hospital corridor, a long, sterile hallway that seemed to stretch into infinity. The news was bad. His file was mixed up.

He felt the familiar pressure building behind his eyes. He had other appointments he couldn't cancel. He'd blocked off this entire afternoon. He already had to chase down a bunch of insurance issues, and now this.

He wanted to kick something. Or, at the very least, leave.

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