"Well, that's just great," she muttered, her voice tight. The space where her childhood birch, the tree she had loved, had stood was now a hollow reminder of how things can change. She pressed her lips together, her fingers tapping a restless rhythm on her thigh.

She wanted to stamp her foot, shout, anything to release the pressure that was building inside her. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes.

She turned on her heel and started to walk, needing to put distance between herself and the ugly scene. The air felt thin, difficult to draw in.

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