The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified the tension in the small bookstore. Evelyn stood, frozen, before the display of her favorite author's works. The news report was still fresh in her mind. Her chest felt constricted. The words "plagiarism" and "scandal" buzzed in her ears. She picked up a copy of "The Whispering Woods" and stared at the cover for a long moment, then slammed it back onto the shelf, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet shop. She turned abruptly and walked out.

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