He stared at the menu, the once-familiar words now taunting him. Chef Javier let out a long breath, a visible tremor shaking through him. The critic’s assessment, that his restaurant was “derivative” and “lacking originality,” had hit him hard. He slammed his fist on the counter, making the plates in front of him jump. He picked up a pen and started making frantic notes, crossing out dishes, scribbling new ideas, rewriting the entire menu with a ferocious intensity.

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