The rhythmic clicking of the keyboard was punctuated by increasingly heavy sighs. I was trying to work, but Michael's non-stop chatter about adopting a rabbit was making it impossible. My shoulders were tight, and my head ached.

He kept talking about how cute it would be, how it could roam freely in the apartment, how much joy it would bring. Joy? I felt anything but.

I slammed my laptop shut, the sound echoing in the small living space. "Look," I began, my voice sharp, "I have deadlines, okay?" His bright expression immediately deflated.

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