He gripped the steering wheel a little harder. The smell of gasoline and burning rubber โ€“ a comforting scent for so long, now a pungent reminder. His garage, once his domain for restoring classic cars, was now a playground, filled with his son, Ben's, remote-controlled vehicles. The crash, the revving, the sheer chaos was wearing him down.

โ€œBen, try to be careful, okay?โ€ He didn't even look at his son. "I have to get to the store." He needed to get away, even if it was just for a bit. There was a twitch in his eye.

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
๐Ÿ˜ 0.251
้ช‚0.249
๐Ÿคฌ0.245
fucking0.239
Suppressed:
own-0.352
ๆธ—้€-0.251
gradually-0.234
unfolding-0.226
่ถ…่ถŠ-0.224