The tiny hairs on the back of his neck prickled. He had a strong urge to flee. He’d been exchanging witty banter with "LiteraryLover" for ages, sharing poetry and philosophical discussions. He’d even felt a flicker of something… more. Now, she was standing directly in front of him in the grocery store, her eyes sparkling with… well, too much enthusiasm.

He fumbled with a bag of carrots, pretending to be utterly engrossed in the nutrition label. "OMG! I didn't realize you were *that* guy!" Her voice was shrill, amplified in the sterile supermarket.

He considered pretending he didn't know her, that he was someone else. He was just too tired.

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