Coach Olsen surveyed the gym, his eyes narrowed. He looked at the players and sighed. He was supposed to choose. He hated these kinds of things. It was a numbers game. He didn't like the game.

He kept tapping his foot. His teeth were clenched. He ran his hand over his close-cropped hair, feeling the rough stubble.

He could hear the sound of the ball bouncing again, echoing in his head. He closed his eyes and tried to block it all out. It wouldn't work.

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