The bus ride had been long and bumpy, and now, finally, she was home, eager to dive into her new book. It was a charming novel. A hidden letter, however, popped out as she opened the cover.

It was a business card. A woman's name and a profession, *Life Coach.* The handwriting on the back was messy, a series of scrawled motivational quotes. Her fingers curled into a fist. She’d paid good money for this book.

She slammed the book shut, the action abrupt and definite. She took the book, and the card, and threw them both in the trash. The novel wouldn't be worth the time, and it was hardly the kind of book she would've liked.

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