The afternoon sun glinted off the shiny tape. "Mr. Theodore Davies." He knew Davies. A grumpy old man who complained about everything. He’d probably ordered some expensive, unnecessary gadget.

He felt the familiar knot in his chest tighten. His already poor mood worsened. He was hungry, and he was tired. He had a million things he wanted to do, and dealing with someone else's package wasn’t one of them.

He shoved the package into the corner. He’d deal with it later. Or, perhaps, not.

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