David let out a harsh sigh. The realtor had been so charming, so insistent, on the house's "historic charm." Now, he knew the history: a suicide in the master bedroom. The beautiful, spacious master bedroom he'd been so excited about. He'd seen all the details.

He ran a hand through his hair, pacing the living room. He'd just finished a long day at work, and all he wanted was to unwind, to relax. He was now thinking that those plans were ruined. He glared at the walls.

He had promised his girlfriend he would cook dinner. He could not.

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