The headline screamed at him: "Dream Home Opportunity!" Dream home? *His* dream had been to get away from that place.

He leaned back in his chair, a sudden wave of heat washing over him. The house was already becoming a stranger, another person's carefully constructed narrative. They didn't know about the ghosts of spilled juice and the endless summer boredom.

He grabbed a pen and began to furiously scribble on the notepad in front of him, trying to distract himself from this unwelcome flood of memories.

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