The flickering fluorescent lights above buzzed, a sound that grated on David's nerves like fingernails on a chalkboard. He glared at the email notification, his jaw clenched so tight he could feel a headache blooming behind his eyes. Subject: "Important Company Update." Great. Just what he needed on a Monday morning. He'd poured his heart into this project, late nights, early mornings, and now this. A sale. Everything he'd worked for might be for nothing. He slammed his fist on the desk, the cheap particle board vibrating. He needed more coffee. Now.

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