He let out a low groan, sinking deeper into his chair. Mr. Jones, his notoriously strict math teacher, followed him. This felt like a betrayal, an intrusion into his digital realm. A burning feeling built within him.

He pictured Mr. Jones scrolling through his feed, dissecting his pictures, judging his opinions. The thought made his skin crawl. He'd have to be extra careful now, censoring everything.

He pulled his textbook closer, but his mind remained elsewhere. He reread the same sentence over and over again, unable to focus. The entire situation left him feeling off-kilter.

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