The sheer volume of junk was overwhelming. Eleanor had come seeking a specific porcelain figurine. Instead, all she could find was more of the same. She felt her patience wearing thin.

Then, there. A faded, threadbare bear, its nose missing, sat slumped against a chipped toy car. She recognized the floral fabric from its dress. Her childhood bear, Primrose. She'd been certain it was lost for good.

The woman running the table started to approach. Eleanor felt a surge of… something. She quickly adjusted her sunglasses.

“How much for the bear?” Eleanor asked, her voice flat.

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