The dog, a golden retriever, had already decimated half of Amelia's zucchini patch before she noticed. She’d been enjoying a rare moment of peace on her porch swing, sipping iced tea. Her jaw tightened as she leaped to her feet, the swing creaking with her sudden movement.

She felt a tremor in her hands. The dog was now happily chewing on a nearly-ripe zucchini. Amelia’s hands clenched into fists at her sides.

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