The movers had just left, leaving a trail of empty pizza boxes and discarded packing tape in their wake. Sarah was already overwhelmed. This new house felt cavernous compared to her old apartment. And cold. She shivered, pulling her sweater tighter as she surveyed the chaos.

She was about to collapse on the sofa when a peculiar draft caught her attention. It was emanating from behind the built-in bookcase in the study. She yanked at it, the whole thing shuddering precariously. A secret passage revealed itself, beckoning her into the darkness. She wanted to scream.

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