The rhythmic thump of the bass from Leo's headphones was abruptly interrupted by the insistent barking. He yanked the earbuds out, his brow furrowing as he noticed the border collie frolicking in his freshly mowed lawn. He exhaled sharply, a puff of air that rustled the few loose hairs on his head.

He glared at the dog, then at the house next door. The sun beat down, making him feel even more heated, as did the thought of all the grass he’d have to re-mow.

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