The coffee cup trembled in his hand, sloshing lukewarm liquid over the pristine white countertop. The price was absurd. Outrageous. The house wasn’t worth half of what they were asking.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a few strands. It felt like a punch to the gut, seeing the kitchen, once vibrant with the smells of his mother's cooking, now rendered cold and sterile in the photographs.

He sighed, the sound a low hiss of frustration. He clicked the 'report listing' button, just to see what would happen. Probably nothing.

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