The courtroom echoed with the solemn pronouncements of the will. His sister, Isabella, was sitting upright, radiating composure as the lawyer delivered her share. A sprawling city apartment and a trust fund. Peter felt a distinct pressure building in his chest.

The lawyer’s gaze met his. “And for Peter, we have… a vintage car repair shop and all the associated tools.” He looked around at the room. He felt a flush creep up his neck. Isabella gave him a sympathetic glance. He wasn't particularly good with his hands.

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