The smell of popcorn filled the air. David was narrating a movie, their joint experience. He was painting himself as the savvy one, the one who had figured out the ending before the big reveal.

Mark sat next to him, a tight feeling in his stomach. The movie wasn't the point.

The memory was different. Mark had been the one who had pieced it all together. He’d seen the clues. He’d figured it all out first. But now, David was spinning it all as if he were the clever one.

"I knew it!" David said loudly.

Mark stared at the screen, suddenly uninterested.

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
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🤬0.245
fucking0.239
Suppressed:
own-0.352
渗透-0.251
gradually-0.234
unfolding-0.226
超越-0.224