The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, the early morning sun streaming through the window... This was the perfect moment. He'd been looking forward to this. He was ready for this. A used copy of *Moby Dick* seemed to be the perfect companion. A piece of paper fluttered out.

He unfolded it, revealing a crudely drawn caricature and a childish rhyme. *Here's a joke, a silly fright, read this book with all your might!* His lips thinned. He tossed the drawing aside.

He flicked through the pages of the book, finding the first chapter, but suddenly he had no desire to read it. He got up and switched on the radio, filling the apartment with some noisy music.

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