"Perfect," I spat, pulling the offending object from the overflowing trash can. My shift was ending. I was dead on my feet. And now this. A wallet, a stupid, leather wallet with what looked like a significant amount of money stuffed inside.

My back ached, my feet throbbed. I glared at the thing. I needed sleep, a hot shower, and a decent meal. Dealing with this was a monumental pain. I wanted out.

I sighed, weighing it in my hand. Ugh. Now I had to find a manager.

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