He kicked at a pebble on the driveway, sending it skittering across the pavement. The discovery of his daughter’s secret YouTube channel had left him with a sour taste in his mouth. The content - overly dramatic makeup tutorials and vapid commentary - just felt… pointless.

He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his neck protesting. He felt a strange sort of heat in his cheeks, a simmering frustration. He'd poured his life into raising her, and now he was getting… this. He needed to think, to process the situation, to stop himself from saying something he'd later regret.

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
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🤬0.245
fucking0.239
Suppressed:
own-0.352
渗透-0.251
gradually-0.234
unfolding-0.226
超越-0.224