The silence of the library was almost deafening, broken only by the rustle of pages. Eliza felt a heat creeping up her neck. She’d been tasked with researching her great-aunt, a woman painted as a shy wallflower who spent her days reading and knitting.

A photograph stared back at her. Her great-aunt, draped in jewels, laughing as she posed with a glamorous stranger.

Eliza closed the book, her knuckles white. This family history project was proving to be a colossal waste of time. Everything was wrong.

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