The wallpaper was patterned with soothing floral designs, which, rather than calming Amelia, seemed to only increase her unease. She found herself picking at a loose thread on the arm of the chair. She was not happy.

The whole situation felt utterly absurd. She was supposed to open up and be vulnerable with the person who had once delighted in her distress? It felt… wrong. She had a headache. She rubbed her temples.

The door to the office opened. There he was. The man, the therapist, called her name. Amelia took a deep breath. She steeled herself. She would get through this.

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