"Unbelievable," Maria muttered, her voice low. She was scrolling through the local newspaper archives, a digital version of the reality of her home. The house was now known to be the place where a family was murdered.

She’d just spent a fortune on renovations. She was going to now have to get rid of the place, at a loss. Her blood was beginning to boil. She kicked the wastebasket across the room.

She considered burning the place to the ground. She turned away from the computer and went to stand by the window. She wished she had never seen it.

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