The email was on his screen, taunting him. James couldn't seem to look away. He saw it earlier, and the information felt like a stab to the gut. The reality was that Chloe, who had joined only a few months ago, was being paid more than him. He felt the familiar pressure in his chest.

He took a long, slow breath, trying to regain his composure. He tried to focus on his work, but his mind kept wandering back to the injustice. He kept replaying the email in his head. His movements felt jerky, his productivity plummeting. He left the office early, not wanting to talk to anyone.

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