He was trying to relax. He’d meticulously crafted a playlist, dimming the lights, and poured himself a glass of whiskey. A gentle chime shattered the peace. He squinted at the screen. A text from his sister: "OMG, just saw that dress! Going to buy it!" It was intended for her friend, not for him, and was a discussion about the wedding he was dreading. He slammed the whiskey glass down on the table, the ice cubes rattling. He took a deep breath. Right. He should probably be the one to text his sister to stop and think before she made any decisions.

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