He stared at the listing, the words blurring before his eyes. "Charming Bungalow". "Updated Kitchen". "Perfect Starter Home". He wanted to scream.

His fingers tightened into fists. He remembered the creaking floorboards, the drafty windows, the way the roof leaked during every heavy rain. Perfect? Hardly.

He threw the laptop onto the couch with a loud thud, then buried his face in his hands. He'd never liked that house. Why did seeing it for sale make him feel this way?

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