The air conditioning was blasting, making the room feel like a meat locker. Chloe wrapped her arms around herself, but it didn't help. She felt… agitated. More than agitated. She just wanted to scream.

She’d almost cancelled the appointment. Nearly turned the car around. But she couldn't. She needed help. It was just… incredibly inconvenient that *he* was the one offering it.

The receptionist called her name. The therapist's door opened, and there he was, standing in the doorway. He looked… unchanged. Which, in itself, was a source of great… frustration. He ushered her inside.

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