The clipboard practically vibrated in Maya's hand. She gripped it tighter, knuckles white, as Coach Miller rattled off the final roster. Number 12, Number 18, Number 23… Each name a tiny, sharp jab. When the last name was read, and it wasn’t hers, a wave of heat flushed up her neck, scorching her face. She closed her eyes, trying to force the unwelcome tears back. Then, she took a long, exaggerated breath, and her shoulders visibly slumped. She tossed the clipboard onto the bleachers with more force than necessary and stomped towards the locker room. The slamming of the door echoed in the otherwise silent gym.

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