The bank statement was neatly organized. Too neatly. The crisp paper seemed to mock her. I swear, the way she filed it! This was classic. Classic *him*.

Laura felt a prickling sensation behind her eyes. He always prided himself on transparency. So much for that. Her fingers tapped a restless rhythm on the kitchen counter.

She looked at the clock. Five-thirty. He'd be home soon. She wondered if she should hide the evidence. No. That would be playing his game. She poured herself a stiff drink.

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