It was a small package, but the size didn't diminish his ire. "For Mr. Quentin Quibble." The name itself seemed absurd. He remembered the previous resident, a man of, to put it mildly, peculiar tastes.

He tapped his foot, the sound amplified in the quiet hallway. He could feel his pulse quickening. He had so much to do. He couldn’t be bothered with someone else’s problems.

He marched down the hall and slammed the door shut, ignoring the package entirely.

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