The silence in the kitchen was oppressive, broken only by the ticking of the ancient grandfather clock in the hallway. Sarah leaned against the counter, arms folded, watching her brother, Michael, rummage through the refrigerator. He was whistling off-key, seemingly oblivious to the chaos surrounding them.

Her shoulders slumped. She just wanted to leave. Why did they have to do this?

Michael pulled out a jar of pickled onions and took a large bite, his face crinkling in disgust. She took a deep breath. She could feel a twitch in her eye.

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