The scent of gardenias filled the stuffy office, a fragrant wave that threatened to choke Leo. Another delivery, this time. He was already drowning in paperwork, the last thing he needed was more unsolicited attention.

He turned away, and sat down at his desk. He stared at the blank screen of his computer, the gardenias a silent, fragrant distraction. He felt a sudden, sharp urge to smash something. He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself. The flowers, he decided, could stay there.

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