The attic felt like a furnace. Mark yanked at his collar, his patience wearing thin. His grandfather, bless his soul, was apparently a saint. Every family story painted him as a pillar of the community, a man who never raised his voice.

He unearthed a photo of him, young and vibrant, leaning against a vintage car, a cigarette dangling casually from his lips. Beside him, a woman with a mischievous glint in her eyes, both of them clearly enjoying themselves.

He slammed the photo down. The idyllic narrative was crumbling, story by story. He really didn't have time for this charade.

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