The coffee tasted like burnt rubber. David glared at it. Then, he looked up to see Karen prattling on about her summer at Camp Sunny Meadow. “We had the best arts and crafts! I made a lanyard and everything,” she exclaimed. David’s fingers fidgeted.

His fingers itched to crumple the Styrofoam cup and chuck it. He could barely contain himself.

He leaned back in his chair, trying to appear relaxed. "That's... great," he said, his voice strained. He felt a sharp pang in his stomach.

She didn't stop. He feigned a phone call, and, without a word, walked away from the conversation.

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