He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles turned white. The transfer to the warehouse was a slap in the face. Richard fumed, the engine of his car a low growl of matching his mood.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm down. The air felt thick and heavy in his lungs, and he hated the idea of moving. He imagined the dust and noise, the heavy lifting and endless routines.

He switched the car radio to a talk show, but the voices grated on his nerves. He turned it off, the sudden silence adding to the unpleasant sensation building inside him.

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