He had been planning to finally paint the living room. The project, previously postponed for months, was now officially off the table. The prospect of shelling out a fortune to buy the place he already lived in felt ludicrous. He paced his apartment, running a hand through his hair, the bristles stiffening as he did so. The thought of the building’s new owners, the ones with their fancy architects and their grand plans, made his blood simmer. He grabbed his keys and left, deciding to skip his usual evening at home.

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