A sense of disbelief washed over Olivia when her daughter announced her new teacher's name. "Ms. Mallory?" she repeated, her voice cracking slightly.

She recalled the many times Ms. Mallory had criticised her. It wasn't fair. The teacher hadn't changed, and neither had her judgment.

Later, she found herself staring at her reflection in the bathroom mirror, her face pale. She was going to have to face her. *Again*. With a sigh, she splashed water on her face, the coldness offering little relief.

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