The first thought that flashed through Emily’s mind upon reading the notice was, “Are you kidding me?” She stared at the bold, cheerful lettering on the paper, a paper the management company clearly thought was going to elicit excitement. She was going to have to deal with the chaos of viewings. And the pressure. The incessant *should you stay or should you go* decision. She felt a throbbing headache blooming behind her eyes. Emily considered going to the grocery store, but the thought of having to interact with people now made her want to throw something.

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