He could feel a throbbing sensation in his temples. This entire situation was utterly ridiculous. The woman across from him, whom he'd been forced to sit with because she knew his "date," kept prattling on about their shared passion for vintage cars. His date, Ethan, was late, yet again. He was beginning to suspect that this was becoming a pattern. He glanced at the entrance. The woman's shrill laugh grated on his ears. Then, in walked Ethan, who immediately wrapped the woman in a hug. His fists clenched.

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