"But it'll be a chameleon!" Ben had exclaimed, his voice practically vibrating with enthusiasm. Maya stared at the intricate terrarium display in the pet store. Her stomach felt tight. The thought of a cold-blooded reptile, staring at her with those unblinking eyes, sent a chill through her.

She rubbed her temples, trying to ward off a headache. The vibrant colors of the store, usually appealing, now felt overwhelming.

"We don't even have room," she mumbled, her voice barely a whisper. Ben didn't seem to hear her, already gesturing to a specific model.

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