The clock on the wall seemed to tick in slow motion, each second amplifying her mounting… discomfort. Maria crossed her arms, a futile attempt to ward off the chill that had settled in her bones. She was not okay.

She should have just stayed home. Avoided the whole situation. But she hadn't. Now, here she was, about to pour her heart out to the person who'd tormented her for years. The sheer audacity of it all was… staggering.

The door opened. The therapist, her childhood tormentor, beckoned her inside. Maria rose from her chair, her jaw tight. She walked towards the door.

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