A wave of heat washed over her. She wanted to disappear into the floor. She had meticulously crafted her online identity with "BookwormBelle," sharing her love of literature and her quiet life. And now, she was standing face-to-face with the bubbly, boisterous, real-life version of her.

She mumbled a greeting, her voice barely audible. Belle was talking a mile a minute, discussing their favorite authors and planning a book club. She took a step back, her shoe bumping against a nearby trash can. She wanted to run.

She tugged at the collar of her shirt. It was suddenly too tight.

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