He stared at the orchids, pristine and elegant, sitting in the ornate vase he'd never asked for. He didn't recognize the handwriting on the delivery slip. Or anyone who would send them. He hadn't been expecting anything like this. He felt a flush of heat creeping up his neck.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying a mix of confusion and irritation. He wasn’t in the mood to solve riddles. He felt a flicker of impatience. He grabbed the vase and marched to the kitchen, shoving them roughly onto the counter. He decided to wash the dishes, the clatter of the plates and cutlery his only response to the mystery.

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