David felt a cold prickle of displeasure wash over him as he scrolled through the hidden Facebook account. His son, Ethan, was portrayed as a social butterfly, the life of the party, a stark contrast to the quiet, introverted boy he knew. His fingers tightened around his phone, his knuckles turning white.

He felt a sudden urge to get up and pace, his energy suddenly high. The sheer gall of it, the deception, was almost enough to make him blow his top. But he resisted the impulse. He took a long, steadying breath.

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