The flashing lights from the police car made Susan jump. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She craned her neck to see what was happening at Mrs. Abernathy’s house. Everything had always seemed perfect there.

Her own life felt a little… chaotic at the moment. She sighed, her shoulders slumping.

Susan leaned back against her own door, a chill spreading through her. The flashing lights felt like a spotlight on her own perceived failures. The world felt off-kilter.

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