"Unbelievable." Ben said, his voice a low growl. The laptop screen cast an unwelcome light on his face. He felt his pulse thrumming in his ears. His old diary, the source of so many private and vulnerable thoughts. It was all there. Publicly.

He closed the laptop, then opened it again. He could not look away. Each sentence was a painful reminder of his past self. He wanted to scream. He looked out the window. He needed air.

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