The movers had scratched the antique table. A broken vase littered the kitchen floor. And now, the plumbing in the master bathroom was backing up. Emily slumped onto the edge of the tub, her shoulders slumping. This day was a complete disaster.

She was about to call her insurance when she glanced at the mirror. Something looked different. She leaned closer and noticed an almost imperceptible gap between the mirror and the wall. With a shove, the mirror revealed a dark cavity behind it. The irritation was building.

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