He stared at the screen, jaw clenched. *Tyler Harrison*. The name, just the name, was a physical blow. A dull ache settled in his chest, a ghost of old hurts. He'd worked so hard to put the past behind him, to build a life. Now this.

He tapped the screen, zooming in on the profile picture. He looked…older. Good. He hated the idea of Tyler being happy. He pressed his lips together, feeling his own blood pressure rise.

He slammed his fist on the table, making his coffee cup jump. He leaned back in his chair, trying to steady his breathing. He had a deadline. He had important things to do. But first… he had to block him.

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