The drive to the event had been a quiet one, filled with an unspoken tension that buzzed in the car. Sarah’s hands were clammy. This was what she got for being the "responsible" child, she fumed.

She surveyed the gathering crowd, a blur of familiar faces. The air in the reception hall was thick with sentiment, a cloying sweetness that made her stomach churn. Her mother, radiating joy, seemed oblivious to the subtle undercurrent of unease Sarah was feeling.

As she walked to the podium, her steps were heavy. She stared at the paper in her hands. The words swam before her eyes. She wanted to scream.

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