"I call this bullshit," Leo grumbled, shoving the weightlifting bar back onto the rack with a resounding clang. He wiped the sweat from his brow with the back of his hand, leaving a smear across his forehead. His heart pounded in his chest, not from exertion, but from something else. The injustice of it all. He was stronger, he knew he was. He watched the other guys celebrate, laughing and slapping each other on the back. His jaw tightened and the muscles of his body tensed as he envisioned the coach’s bland apology. He wouldn't show them how much this stunk.

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