Sarah crumpled the memo in her hands, the paper making a frustrated crunching noise. Her chest tightened. It was always the same story. Sacrifice, effort, and then… swallowed whole. She took a deep, shaky breath, attempting to calm the sudden, unwelcome heat spreading through her. She leaned back in her chair, the springs groaning in protest, the squeak amplifying the tension. The office air smelled stale, a mixture of cheap coffee and unspoken dread. "Unbelievable," she muttered under her breath, her voice tight and clipped.

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