The new job was stressful, the commute was brutal, and now the dishwasher was leaking. John ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying his mounting frustration. He had to replace it. A task he did not need. He was close to breaking point.

He was about to write the manufacturer a complaint when he saw a panel in the pantry. He pushed it with his finger, the effort barely registering. It yielded to the pressure, revealing a secret room. He stared at it, speechless. He just needed to fix the sink.

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