He could smell the faint scent of charcoal and expensive perfume as he trudged past the immaculate lawn. James's own BBQ was a bit of a disaster. The charred burgers stuck to the grill, and the store-bought buns were already stale.

Across the fence, Mr. Thompson was hosting a party of his own. A live band was playing, champagne glasses sparkled in the setting sun, and laughter drifted over the fence. James's face was flushed.

He slammed the lid on his grill, the sound echoing in the sudden silence. The clinking of glasses felt like a deliberate taunt.

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