The rhythmic click-clack of Clara's knitting needles was abruptly abandoned, the ball of yarn rolling across the sofa towards the floor. Her brow furrowed as she followed the sounds of the telephone conversation floating from the hallway. Whispers. Giggles. She balled her fists. The floral wallpaper of the living room suddenly seemed a little too bright, a little too cheerful. The needlework lay forgotten, a tangled mess of wool, mirroring her own feelings.

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