The bright fluorescent lights of the office seemed to mock Maya. Her back was stiff, and she was sitting bolt upright in the uncomfortable chair. The accusations hung in the air, thick and suffocating.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the arms of the chair, fighting the urge to stand up and run. The professor's words were a blur, a monotonous drone.

She opened her mouth, but no sound came out. She closed her eyes for a moment, wishing she could just disappear. She needed to focus, to articulate the truth.

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