David tossed the book across the room, the trajectory slightly off. It landed with a soft thud against the wall. He stared at it, his face flushed. He wanted to burn it. He wanted to shred it. The words, the *lies*, the… everything made him want to explode. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end.

He grabbed his jacket, the movement abrupt and forceful. He had to get out, he needed air, he needed to think. He stomped out the door, and the slamming echoed through the empty apartment.

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