He’d arrived late, rushing from a particularly grueling shift. His sister, Bethany, sat calmly, practically glowing with the news. She'd inherited a substantial property. The beach house on the coast. He could feel his jaw clenching. He hadn't bothered to get changed. The lawyer cleared his throat.

“And for you, Daniel, a substantial collection of…comic books.” He blinked, then blinked again. *Comic books?* His brother was already making plans for the beach house. His fingers tightened around his keys. He took a deep breath. He should probably get home.

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