The pawn shop felt like a mausoleum to Olivia, the air heavy with unspoken histories. The shop owner's incessant humming and the general gloom only deepened her mood. She'd been running on fumes for weeks.

She glared. The ring, sitting there, was like the final straw. Her grandmother's ring. The one she’d inherited, the one that had mysteriously vanished from her home a year ago. She took a shuddering breath. "How much?" she said, her voice tight. “And make it quick.”

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