He found her at the art gallery, standing before a painting of a familiar landscape. “Emma? Emma Carter? It’s… it’s John. We used to explore those woods, remember?”

Emma turned, her expression guarded. “I’m sorry, I don’t think so.” She gave a polite nod.

John stared at her, the blood draining from his face. He felt a coldness spread through him, a hollowness that echoed the empty gallery. He clenched his hands into fists, then turned and left, the silence of the gallery closing in.

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