The thrum of the chainsaw echoed in the air. Robert stood, his arms crossed, watching the workers clear the wreckage. The whole process was taking far too long. He tapped his foot impatiently.

The fallen sycamore, belonging to the people next door, had completely decimated his shed. The new lawnmower was probably beyond repair. This was a nightmare. He had so many things to do today.

He rubbed his temples, a headache already forming.

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