The rhythmic tapping of Amelia's foot against the hardwood floor was almost deafening. Every single beat echoed the frustration brewing inside. Mark had been talking about this blasted cat for an hour, detailing its fluffy fur and playful antics.

"It'll be good for us," he'd chirped, oblivious. Amelia gritted her teeth, picturing cat hair clinging to every surface of their already cramped apartment. She crossed her arms, the fabric of her sweater bunching up uncomfortably.

"And who," she finally snapped, her voice tight, "will be scooping the litter box at 6 AM?" She glared at him. Mark just smiled, utterly unconcerned.

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