The clatter of dishes as Emily unloaded the dishwasher seemed excessively loud. The idea of a hamster running on its squeaky wheel in the middle of the night filled her with a sense of dread.

She glared at the empty space on the countertop. It was where David had suggested placing the cage. The mere thought of a small, furry creature constantly moving around in their small living space was maddening.

"It's just a hamster!" David had said, his voice laced with amusement. She gripped the edge of the counter, her knuckles white.

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