The attic door creaked shut, plunging the space into near darkness. Clara squinted, her shoulders tense with frustration. She'd been told her great-grandmother was a simple woman who lived a simple life.

She picked up a photo, her breath catching in her throat. The woman, resplendent in a silk gown, was surrounded by adoring men. A party, no doubt, the scene full of laughter.

Clara tossed the picture back in the box. This charade was testing her patience.

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