The coffee tasted like tar, and Emily knew it wasn't the coffee's fault. It was the news: moved to Tech Support. She stared at the swirling brown liquid, letting the bitterness linger on her tongue. Her head was starting to hurt.

She tapped her pen impatiently on her notepad. Her normally neat handwriting became a scrawl as she scribbled meaningless doodles. The open-plan office, usually a sea of productive activity, now felt like a buzzing hive of chaos.

"Wonderful," she huffed, the word laced with sarcasm. The phrase felt like a heavy weight in her chest. She pushed away from her desk, the chair screeching across the carpet.

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