"Right, so that's that," David said, his voice clipped and short. He had been reassigned to research and development. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples.

He slammed his file shut, the sound echoing in his small office. He leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling. The office air conditioner felt too cold.

The change, he was certain, would be a disaster. He began to plan the details of his escape. He didn't want this. He stood up, then immediately sat down.

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