The automated voice on the phone droned on, repeating the same useless information. Liam's grip tightened on the receiver, his knuckles white. The nurse had called, explaining the file mix-up.

He pushed back from his desk, the chair screeching against the floor. He'd spent weeks preparing for this appointment. He’d meticulously documented everything. Now, everything was delayed.

He wanted to hurl the phone across the room. The sheer frustration was… draining. He could practically feel the precious time slipping away.

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