The insistent buzzing of the vacuum cleaner filled the apartment. Sarah was cleaning, meticulously, almost violently. David's suggestion of a snake was still slithering around in her mind.

She scrubbed at an invisible stain on the carpet, her movements sharp and precise. Her face was set in a determined mask. Snakes. She didn't want a snake in the apartment.

The thought of an extra responsibility weighed on her and the pressure in her head was increasing. "I'm not doing it," she whispered to herself as she furiously continued cleaning.

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