A wave of heat flushed through Clara. Her hands trembled as she scanned the DNA test results. *Positive.* She wasn't just an only child. She had a sibling she didn't know existed, thanks to her father's… actions.

She ripped the paper in half, then again, then again, the fragments swirling in the air. The pristine white of her study suddenly felt confining. She pushed herself away from the desk, her chair scraping across the floor. She needed fresh air, a long walk, anything to clear her head. The world tilted slightly.

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