The dusty old shoebox, hidden under the guest bed, held the key. Emily found it while cleaning, her cleaning cloths moving with unusual force. It wasn’t the money itself, though the total was impressive. It was the secrecy.

She sat on the edge of the bed, the box resting on her lap, the paper receipts a silent testament to a life she hadn't known. A wave of ice spread through her chest. How could he?

She imagined his reaction when she confronted him. The plausible deniability. The sheepish grin. Her fist clenched. She was suddenly consumed with the desire to scrub the entire house from top to bottom. Starting with that darn guest room.

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