He had the audacity to call her a "party pooper." Alex paced the length of their small living room. The small space seemed to shrink with every step. The persistent whirring of the refrigerator was somehow more irritating than usual.

Leo's eagerness to adopt a bird had been escalating all week. The thought of feathers, and bird droppings, filled her with dread.

She stopped pacing and pressed her palms against her eyes, willing herself to calm down. "A bird," she muttered, her voice muffled, "is a terrible idea."

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