"Extra Income Sources," the document was titled, in a font that looked suspiciously like Comic Sans. David stared at the screen, a muscle ticking in his cheek. He had been meticulously planning their retirement. Apparently, *he* had been.

He felt a tightness in his chest. A simmering resentment began. He reached for the coffee cup, then slammed it back down, the liquid sloshing over the rim.

He stood up abruptly, pacing the small living room. The air felt thick, heavy. He needed to be alone for a minute, or maybe an hour.

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