The weight of the silence in the library felt oppressive. Across the table, Emily was detailing her recent research trip, which apparently involved a great amount of travel and complex scientific study. The reality was a mundane office job. Her friend found out from a friend of Emily’s boyfriend. John’s jaw clenched. The air in the room felt suffocating. He hated the performance, the elaborate fiction. He pushed his chair back, the scrape of the legs shattering the quiet. He stood and walked away.

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