He glared at the blinking cursor on his laptop screen. He'd been looking forward to a relaxing evening. He had planned to finally start that new book he was reading. He'd always connected with "TechTitan" online, sharing coding tips and geeky jokes. TechTitan, or rather, Tyler, had been a welcome escape from his mundane life. And now Tyler was standing outside his door, holding a pizza.

He rested his head on the desk. He felt suddenly drained. He wasn't sure he could face this.
He wanted to hide away. He sighed and glanced at the door.

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