The email from HR made Mark's jaw clench. Retail. He had been moved to retail. He slammed his fist down on the table, the force rattling the coffee cup. The situation was simply unbelievable.

The office felt suddenly constricting, the walls closing in on him. He felt hot and flushed, his face burning with a mixture of disbelief and something akin to fury.

He started to pace, his steps rapid and restless. The world felt out of balance, and he felt a desperate desire to escape. He looked at the clock: two hours until the end of the day.

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