The sheer volume of paperwork piled on the desk felt oppressive. Eleanor, feeling the pressure in her temples, struggled to keep her eyes on the documents. Her brother, Charles, was leaning back in his chair, beaming, the new owner of a thriving business empire. She felt a knot forming in her stomach.

The solicitor looked at her. “And for Miss Eleanor, we have…” He paused, his gaze softening. “…a collection of antique letters and diaries, detailing the family's history, and a modest apartment.” A wave of heat washed over her. *Letters and diaries!* She knew she couldn't show her true feelings. She picked up a pen and pretended to read.

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