The bride’s vows, however lovely, felt like a deliberate taunt. Chloe found her fingers drumming a restless rhythm on the table. Every word, every glance, reminded her of the future she’d envisioned. The future she’d lost.

Then, there he was. Casually chatting with the best man, as if nothing had happened. She wanted to scream.

She focused on her breathing, trying to regain some semblance of composure. She forced herself to smile at the bridesmaid who was looking at her, but the smile felt brittle and fragile.

She wanted to be invisible.

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