The delivery man was gone before Daniel could even open his mouth. He was left holding a vase filled with a profusion of brightly coloured carnations. Carnations. He hated carnations. And of course, no note.

He marched back into his apartment, the flowers a burden in his hands. He slammed the vase down on the coffee table. The vibrant colours seemed to mock him. His jaw clenched. He was suddenly overwhelmed, and felt like screaming. He started pacing the room, his frustration mounting with each step.

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