The insistent buzzing of the doorbell finally broke the spell of the morning. Standing on the porch, Mr. Miller, his usually friendly demeanor replaced by a strained smile.

"Morning, John! About the willow..." The willow, a weeping beauty, a haven for the robin.

John felt a familiar pressure building in his temples. He was just getting ready to take a nap.

“It's getting a bit… messy, isn’t it? The roots, the branches…” Mr. Miller’s voice, usually a comforting baritone, sounded grating.

John felt a sudden urge to flee inside and lock the door.

He bit back a retort, forcing himself to smile back. "I'll think about it," he said, hoping the words sounded sincere.

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