The restaurant was packed, but Chef Ken couldn't focus on the orders. The critic’s words, “sterile atmosphere” and “uninspired decor,” echoed in his mind, undermining the carefully crafted ambiance he had strived for. He abruptly barked out orders, his voice carrying an edge that made the waitstaff scatter. He surveyed the dining room, his eyes darting around, searching for some imperfection. He noticed the placement of a vase and made a beeline for it, rearranging it with exaggerated precision.

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