"For a rainy day," the note read, accompanying the hefty check. He'd hidden it in the desk drawer. She found it whilst looking for a pen. The paper crumpled in her fist.

She wanted to scream. She took a deep breath. She could feel a twitch in her eye. She started pacing, the hardwood floors creaking under her steps.

She envisioned the conversation to come. The apologies. The excuses. She needed something cold.

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