“Alright, let’s just get this done,” Coach Harrison said, his voice flat. He pushed the chair back from his desk with unnecessary force, the legs scraping against the floor. He had three players to tell, three tough conversations that were going to eat into his already dwindling patience. He could practically feel the weight of their disappointed faces already.

He glanced at the picture on his desk – his own kids, happy and smiling. He quickly pushed it away. He picked up his pen and tapped it against his desk with a rapid, staccato beat.

He grabbed his keys and slammed the door behind 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