She found the letter tucked under the windshield wiper of her car. Her hands tightened on the steering wheel, her knuckles turning white. It was from her ex-husband, Mark, an apology for the emotional pain he inflicted during their divorce. She scanned the words, a deep frown creasing her brow. After all these years, after the freedom and independence she had carefully cultivated, he had the audacity to intrude again. She crumpled the letter, flinging it into the passenger seat. The engine purred to life, and she put the car into gear, ready to drive away.

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