The flickering candlelight seemed to mock Leo’s rising frustration. He fiddled with the breadsticks, crumbling them into tiny, useless pieces. Across the table, a man with an offensively jovial attitude was relating the intricacies of his fantasy football league. Leo's date, Liam, was overdue. He'd texted him fifteen minutes ago, feigning traffic issues. Now, the restaurant door chimed, and Liam appeared, accompanied by a man with impossibly white teeth. They embraced, laughing. Leo's appetite vanished.

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