The news hit Martha like a physical blow. "Bookworm's Bistro" closing. The place where she spent most of her weekend, reading. Where the staff knew her order. Where she could get away from it all.

She slammed the laptop shut, the movement making a loud, crackling sound, and the screen flashed. The bright light was offensive. She got up from her desk, pacing the room, feeling stifled and trapped.

She ripped open the front door. She needed a distraction. She grabbed her keys. Maybe a drive could help.

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