"Can you believe it?" the text read. Attached was a photo. A woman, leaning against a bar, showing off a perfectly replicated version of her "Crimson Tide" piece running up her calf. Clara's breath hitched.

She tossed her phone onto the sofa. The screen landed face down. A wave of something akin to cold fury washed over her. She got up, pacing around her apartment. She felt a burning pressure behind her eyes.

She wanted to tear something, break something, anything to alleviate the pressure building inside. She reached for a vase and then put it back, her hands trembling.

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