The relentless thrum of the arcade games did little to soothe Maya's mounting agitation. She hunched over the air hockey table, slamming the puck with excessive force. Across the room, a girl with bright pink hair was enthusiastically describing a music festival to her. This girl, apparently, was going with *him.* Maya’s date, Alex, had been "held up" again. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to pulse in time with her racing pulse. As if on cue, the doors of the arcade swung open and Alex came strolling in, holding hands with the pink-haired girl. Maya slammed the air hockey paddle on the table.

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