"Ugh," Sophia said, the word a small sound of disgust. She pointed at a pile of dusty, chipped china dolls. She had been so excited to finally be settling into her dream home.

She sighed deeply. This was just her luck. She’d hoped to spend the afternoon unpacking boxes. Instead, she was surrounded by a sea of other people's possessions.

She slammed the attic door shut. A wave of irritation washed over her. She needed a distraction and perhaps a stiff drink.

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