The house felt stuffy, the air thick with unspoken tension. Maria, usually meticulous, had left a stack of papers on the counter, uncaring. It had been hours since she had seen her daughter's secret Pinterest account, and the images were still replaying in her mind.

She ran a hand over her forehead, pushing back strands of hair. The account was filled with… things. Things she disapproved of, things she didn’t understand, things that seemed to actively contradict the image her daughter presented to the world. She wanted to escape, to disappear. She wanted everything to be easy.

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