She’d found the website by accident, a hidden blog under a pseudonym. The opening paragraph sent a chill down her spine. The protagonist’s life was practically a carbon copy of her own, right down to the color of her favorite mug.

She scrolled through the posts, each one meticulously detailing their relationship, their conversations, and her private thoughts. A feeling, sharp and unpleasant, clawed at her insides. It was an invasion.

She slammed her laptop shut. The room suddenly felt very small. She went to the living room to confront her partner, Alex, feeling like she might explode.

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