Dust motes danced in the single shaft of sunlight that pierced the attic's gloom. Sarah coughed, pulling the scarf up over her mouth and nose. "Seriously?" she muttered, staring at the overflowing trunk. It wasn't enough that the realtor had failed to mention the ridiculously low ceilings, now she had to deal with this.

She kicked at a stack of yellowed newspapers. The paper crinkled and sent up another cloud of dust. "Just great," she grumbled under her breath.

The weight of the old trunk was more than she'd anticipated. Heaving it open, she found it stuffed with moth-eaten clothes, crumbling letters tied with faded ribbons, and a doll with one missing eye. The thought of sorting through this mess made her jaw clench.

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