Her gaze drifted to the framed photograph on the mantelpiece. “Go skydiving.” That would be her mother, all right. A thrill-seeker, even in her wildest dreams. The list felt like a personal affront. Amelia slumped onto the couch.

It wasn't fair. The unfairness of it all clenched at her chest. She wanted to yell, to break something. She wanted her mother to be here, to help her through this mess. She reached for the remote, switching on the television, the blaring noise a temporary distraction from the echoing silence of the house.

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