The spreadsheet was tucked away in a folder labeled "Bob's Budgeting Bonanza." Sarah clicked it open with a distinct sharpness to her finger. Really? "Bonanza?" She felt her jaw clench. This was beyond the regular "personal spending" she was aware of. This was... significant. A deep heat flushed up her neck.

She scrolled through the figures. Vacation fund. Golf equipment. "Emergency Squirrel Fund?" Her eyes narrowed. What emergency required a squirrel fund? And how had he managed to squirrel away this much without her knowing? Her breath hitched a little.

She slammed the laptop shut. Dinner was supposed to be ready in thirty minutes. She grabbed her phone, scrolling through recipes, the movements unnecessarily brisk.

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