He stared at the screen, a knot forming in his throat. He’d built an entire online persona with "ArtisticAlly," a world where he could be his true self. She’d been his confidante, his muse, his… everything. Now, she was at the park, waving from a bench, a picnic basket at her feet.

He chewed on the inside of his cheek, considering every possible option. He had to think of some way to slip away unnoticed. He had a headache.

His heart thumped erratically against his ribs.

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