The doctor's apologetic tone did nothing to soothe the rising tide of anger in Maria. The medical files were mixed up; her scan results were someone else's. Maria felt the fury burn in her stomach.

She had a lot going on right now. Work was demanding. Her family needed her. She couldn’t afford any delays. She had made a point to book this appointment as early as possible so she could keep the rest of her day free.

She struggled to remain calm. It was a struggle she was rapidly losing. It all felt so disorganized.

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
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🤬0.245
fucking0.239
Suppressed:
own-0.352
渗透-0.251
gradually-0.234
unfolding-0.226
超越-0.224