"More flowers," I thought, my voice flat, almost devoid of feeling. I opened the door to find the usual delivery man, holding a vibrant posy of tulips. No card. Of course not. I closed the door, the click echoing in the sudden silence of the apartment.

I placed the flowers on the table with a grunt. The vibrant colours were an insult. All I wanted was to be left alone. I glared at the tulips and then at the phone, as if daring the sender to call and confess.

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