It was the fifth time this month that Maria had seen the delivery truck. A new painting, a sculpture, a bespoke bookshelf… the list went on. She scrubbed at the kitchen counter, her movements aggressive.

Her own kitchen table wobbled precariously, held together with duct tape. Every time she saw Mrs. Davis’s new acquisitions, a wave of discomfort washed over her.

She squeezed the dish soap bottle until it almost burst. It was just… unfair. Her breathing grew shallow.

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