The movers were due in an hour. James had just found out that this house was a place where a child was abused and killed. His stomach was twisting. He’d signed the papers. He was now the owner of a former hell.

He sat on the couch, staring at the front door. He couldn't believe his luck. He'd wanted a new start, a fresh beginning. This wasn’t it.

His head was throbbing. He wanted to cancel everything. He needed to get away, and he wanted to do it now.

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