She found herself gripping the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white. Her surprise tea party for her mother, scheduled on the same day as her sister's spa day! The thought of her mother missing out on her special day made a surge of… something unpleasant, bubble up inside her.

The drive seemed longer than usual, the traffic incredibly slow. The image of the carefully arranged china and the delicate pastries, suddenly, had a bitter taste. The carefully chosen location, all wrong.

She drummed her fingers on the steering wheel, unable to stop, and a muscle jumped in her cheek. She was going to be sick.

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