The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the words in bold ink. "See the Northern Lights." A chill went down his spine. His sister, a woman who never saw past a spreadsheet, had written this before her sudden death. David threw the list onto the floor.

He stared out the window, the image of his sister vivid in his mind. He wasn't sure he could go on with life. He had spent his life caring for her, and she was gone. He began to pace. He thought about everything he had to do. He picked up the list from the floor and started to cry.

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