He leaned back in his chair, the image of the published article burning in his mind. "Innovative Design Concepts," attributed to "Arthur Finch." His lips curled into a tight, humorless line. He felt a sudden, sharp ache in his temples, a telltale sign of the gathering storm.

He sat for a moment, letting the silence of the office settle around him. Then, he stood up, his movements stiff and deliberate. He walked over to the water cooler, filled a glass, and drank it down in one long, unbroken swallow. He felt the cold water do nothing to quench the fire in his gut.

He knew what he had to do. He went back to his desk, opened his email, and started drafting a strongly worded message.

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