The aroma of freshly baked bread usually soothed Maria. Today, however, it seemed to intensify her mounting stress. The bakery, usually her sanctuary, now felt claustrophobic. She’d crafted the perfect recipe, spent countless hours honing it. A new baker was showing off her product. It was an exact copy.

She clenched her fists. A vein pulsed in her temple.

“That’s… remarkably similar,” she said, her voice barely a whisper as she walked to the woman's display.

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