He stared out the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. The building's announcement felt like a personal affront. It was his haven, a haven that would now be disrupted by the frantic energy of buyers and real estate agents. His shoulders slumped, he felt as if his favorite armchair was suddenly being snatched away from him. He had just finished hanging his favorite painting. He’d barely had time to admire it. He closed the blinds, the sudden darkness a physical representation of the mood swirling around him.

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