The volume of the television seemed to increase with every passing minute. It was the only way to drown out the voice of Michael as he continued his passionate campaign for a hedgehog. She couldn't understand his appeal.

She fidgeted with the remote, scrolling through channels she wasn't actually watching. Her jaw was set, and her eyes felt strained.

"Think of the snuggles!" he'd enthused earlier. She shuddered, and immediately decided to start her evening routine.

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