The clicking of the mouse seemed to echo in the room, amplified by the tension. Frank ran through the protocols, his words clipped and precise. He felt a knot in his stomach every time the new employee, Michael, glanced at his watch.

“So, you see, you need to verify the data points,” Frank said, his voice flat. He pointed at the screen, resisting the urge to slam his fist on the table.

Michael yawned, covering his mouth with his hand. "Right, right," he said. Frank stared at him, his face a mask of control. He wanted to scream. He wanted to throw his computer out the window.

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