The package was enormous, almost blocking the doorway. “Ms. Isolde Blackwood.” He knew Blackwood. The woman had been obsessed with crystals. He could already guess what the contents were.

He dropped his keys on the counter with a loud thud. He rubbed his temples. He’d spent the whole day dealing with difficult clients. He was looking forward to a quiet evening. This felt like a cruel joke.

He sighed and bent down, preparing himself for the inevitable unpacking and returning of someone else’s items.

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