He paced the length of the empty gallery, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. The gallery was filled with his mentor's collected work – the vibrant, passionate art he had cultivated with great care. A tight knot formed in his stomach. He’d meticulously studied each piece, learned the story behind every brushstroke, only to have the artist simply vanish, leaving everything behind. The silence was deafening. He stopped and kicked a nearby easel, sending it wobbling dangerously close to a large canvas.

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