"Unbelievable," she whispered, her voice barely audible. The space where the cherry blossom, the tree that had marked the arrival of spring every year, was empty. Her throat tightened.

Her vision blurred. The urge to run, to flee this scene of destruction, was overwhelming. She had loved that tree.

She clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms. The injustice of it all. It was just a tree, a voice inside her chided, but a flood of memories surged through her.

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