"Honestly," said David, the head chef of The Gilded Spoon, his voice dangerously low, "the man doesn't know a damn thing about food." He crumpled the review, tossing it into the already overflowing trash bin. It landed atop a pile of discarded celery. He turned to his sous chef, "Where's the truffle oil? I told you to get the good stuff." He waited, drumming his fingers on the pristine, white tablecloth. His gaze locked onto the sous chef, who visibly shrunk under the pressure.

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