The professor’s words echoed in Clara’s ears. Her hands were ice cold, despite the warmth of the room. She felt a tremble in her legs. It was impossible, ludicrous, and she was being wrongly accused.

She crossed her arms, her gaze fixed on a spot on the wall behind the professor's head, trying to find some form of stillness. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a tightness. It was as though all the air was being sucked out of her.

She had to get out of there. But she forced herself to sit still, to listen, to respond. She didn't want to show any of her emotions.

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