He wanted to throw his phone across the room. Mr. Davis, his band teacher, had the audacity. The guy was already a bit of a control freak, always micromanaging rehearsals and insisting on absolute silence. Now, he'd be policing his social media too.

The thought of his teacher looking at pictures of him playing video games, or listening to his music playlist, made a vein in his forehead pulse visibly. He let out a frustrated breath. This was too much.

He paced his room, trying to calm down. He began to plan the next day's outfit, as if this trivial act could somehow restore order. He would wear something utterly boring, something that would bore even Mr. Davis.

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