The insistent, choppy French phrases grated on her ears. David, her husband, was practicing again. He’d signed up for an online course, without telling her. He’d been working at it for weeks.

She threw her hands up in the air. "It's… *charming*," she hissed, her voice laced with a fury she tried to hide. David flinched.

"Just… *charming*." She spun and headed to the bedroom, the door slamming shut behind her.

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