Sarah slammed the door, the flimsy particleboard vibrating under the force. Another one. The box was bulky, addressed to "Mr. Bartholomew Finch." Finch, a name that conjured images of tweed and pipe smoke. She imagined him probably retired, and she, stuck dealing with his mail.

She kicked the box, sending it skidding across the living room floor. A headache was starting to throb behind her eyes. She’d been up since five, chasing deadlines, and the last thing she needed was someone else’s unwanted junk. She felt the sudden urge to just put it in the hallway and let the next person sort it.

"Just… great," she whispered to herself.

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