"Seriously?" Mark asked, his voice strained. He glared at the fallen trunk, its massive girth blocking half his driveway. He’d been planning to take the boat out on the lake.

His hands fidgeted, picking at the loose threads on his jeans. He could feel a headache starting to build behind his eyes. He already knew this would be a whole ordeal with the insurance and the tree removal services.

He just wanted to relax. Just for once, he wanted to relax.

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