The sunlight glinted off the glossy surface of the card, highlighting the saccharine message. "Hope your day is filled with joy!" she read aloud, her voice tight. Joy? She wanted to scream. She'd been up since dawn dealing with a leaky faucet, and then to come home to this.

She tossed the card onto the table. It landed with a soft thud on the pile of bills she still hadn't gotten around to paying. A knot formed in her throat. She needed a 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