The phone vibrated in Emily’s hand. She glanced at the screen: a notification about a Zoom meeting that was about to start. Perfect timing. The pounding from the DJ next door was making her teeth ache, and it seemed to grow louder by the second.

She sighed, pressing her fingers against her temples, attempting to alleviate the feeling of pressure building. The bass was a physical force, pushing against her eardrums. She grabbed her headset.

“Hello?” She said in a voice she barely recognized. The DJ's music continued in the background, a relentless assault.

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