The afternoon sun blazed through the attic window, turning the dust particles into glittering gold. But Eleanor’s mood was anything but golden. "Are you kidding me?" she asked aloud, her voice tight with disbelief.

She tugged at a box marked "MISCELLANEOUS" that was crammed full of old photographs. The thought of sorting through the memories of strangers was not appealing. She couldn’t believe this.

She sat heavily on an overturned crate, a sense of weary resignation settling over her. She knew this was going to take hours. She considered the size of the task and felt her resolve waver.

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