The attic air hung thick and stale. "Unbelievable," Clara breathed, her voice tight. She was supposed to be celebrating her promotion today. Instead, she was stuck up here.

She poked at a dusty, antique sewing machine. The gears were rusted, the wood warped. "Seriously?" she repeated, shaking her head.

A wave of frustration washed over her. She imagined the previous owners, careless and oblivious, leaving behind this mess. She kicked at a discarded lampshade; its fragile frame immediately broke apart.

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