The pristine white of the test results seemed to radiate a cold, judgmental light. He crumpled the paper in his fist, the sound a small, satisfying crack. His biological family was something he never knew. He felt a profound sense of… something.

He kicked at a discarded toy on the floor, sending it skittering across the room. Everything he thought he knew was suddenly… suspect. The cozy warmth of his house now felt like a stage set, the actors playing roles he'd been forced into.

"Unbelievable," he hissed, unable to meet his own reflection in the window.

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