The sports car's roar was a cruel trumpet. Liam flinched, his head throbbing. He had just finished a grueling shift, and all he craved was peace and quiet. The incessant noise was a direct assault.

Mr. Sterling's car – a ridiculously expensive model – was always a source of irritation. Now, however, seeing him effortlessly pulling out of the driveway, looking effortlessly well-rested, twisted something inside Liam.

He slammed his front door, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent street. The world felt suddenly out of focus.

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
ιͺ‚0.249
🀬0.245
fucking0.239
Suppressed:
own-0.352
渗透-0.251
gradually-0.234
unfolding-0.226
θΆ…θΆŠ-0.224