The dog started barking, a high-pitched yelp, mirroring the growing agitation within Mark. He flinched at the sound, then glared at the thin wall separating his apartment from the neighbor's. The music pulsed through the structure, a throbbing invasion.

He closed his eyes, and took a deep breath, trying to calm himself. It was no use. The thumping was relentless, a physical presence. He wanted to scream.

He picked up his phone. He needed to find a solution.

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