The attic stairs creaked under Liam's weight. He muttered under his breath, wondering what he'd gotten himself into. "Wonderful," he said as he saw a jumble of things.

He sifted through a mountain of discarded objects: boxes crammed with forgotten trinkets, picture frames without pictures, and a rocking horse missing one of its rockers. The sheer clutter was overwhelming.

His hands clenched into fists. He had planned to spend the afternoon assembling his new bookshelf. Now, this. He felt a sharp pressure behind his eyes.

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