"Seriously?" Maya muttered under her breath, staring at the screen. Her fingers tapped a restless rhythm against the desk. "Of *course*." The article, a digital excavation of her adolescent angst, was live, complete with a cringeworthy photo of her in a particularly unfortunate outfit.

She could feel her cheeks burning. A wave of heat washed over her, making her skin prickle. She wanted to scream. She had to, and she wanted to scream at the person who posted it. Her hands balled into fists, and she slammed them on her desk. That was when she realized she needed to order more coffee.

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