The noise in the cafe was already grating. He'd been looking for a quiet moment to review his notes, but it felt impossible. A blare from his phone. It read: "How about we start with the green one, then?" It was a message meant for his friend, discussing a potential car purchase, but had gone to his grumpy coworker. He slammed the phone down on the table. The coffee cup shook. He got a death stare from the barista, and he muttered under his breath, and then sent a quick reply to the coworker.

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