The invitation landed on Amelia's kitchen counter like a lead weight. She stared at it, the glossy paper practically mocking her. "You're Invited to Liam's 25th Birthday Bash!" it screamed in bold, playful fonts. Amelia’s jaw tightened. Liam’s party was the same day as hers. The same *damn* day.

She snatched the card up, crumpling it slightly as she did. The decorations she’d spent weeks planning – the fairy lights, the personalized banners, the carefully curated playlist – felt suddenly… pointless. A knot formed in her stomach.

“Well, this is just great,” she muttered, already picturing her own sparsely populated party room. Her email pinged, another RSVP. This one, with a regret.

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