The email notification popped up on her phone, and she nearly dropped it. A mass email from management: "Important Announcement Regarding the Future of Your Home!" Her fingers tightened around the phone. Home? She hated the peeling wallpaper, the drafty windows, and the constant drip of the upstairs neighbor's leaky faucet. But it was *her* leaky faucet. It was *her* drafty windows. The thought of losing this crumbling, familiar space, of being priced out and displaced, made her stomach churn.

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