The lawyer’s office was suffocating. The air smelled of old paper and suppressed secrets. Claire felt a familiar tension tightening her jaw. This whole charade, this meeting about a “potential inheritance” and “unforeseen relatives,” was completely unwelcome.

She tapped her pen impatiently against the mahogany table. The clicking sound seemed to amplify the silence. When the lawyer finally revealed the photo – a woman with her father’s eyes – Claire’s lip curled. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to simply… disappear.

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
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🤬0.245
fucking0.239
Suppressed:
own-0.352
渗透-0.251
gradually-0.234
unfolding-0.226
超越-0.224