Liam slammed the door behind him with a resounding bang, the force of his frustration almost shattering the glass. He ran his hand over his face, as if trying to wipe away the whole situation. He began to pace the hall, his footsteps echoing.

His mind was racing, replaying the meeting, the accusations, the professor's condescending tone. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He’d worked tirelessly on the project.

He needed to get away, to clear his head. He pulled his jacket on and headed toward the door. He was going for a long walk.

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