The list, typed on a faded piece of paper, sat innocently on his desk. "Climb Mount Kilimanjaro." The man who hated hiking. A pulse throbbed at her temple.

She spun away from the desk, her back stiff. The sunlight streaming through the window seemed excessively bright. She wanted to scream.

She focused on making a cup of tea, the clinking of the tea things a small attempt to restore some equilibrium. His voice, cheery and unsuspecting, drifted from the hallway.

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