The air in the basement was thick with the scent of mildew. Sarah slammed the photo album shut with a resounding thud. Each page revealed another betrayal of the carefully constructed family myth.

Her grandmother, the epitome of grace and decorum according to the family lore, was pictured in a chorus line, her smile electric and her pose anything but demure.

Sarah's jaw clenched. This was infuriating. The sheer audacity of the stories. She wanted to hurl the album across the room.

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