“Seriously?” Mark muttered, his voice tight. Mr. Harrison, his biology teacher, had the nerve to follow him. He felt a sharp jab of irritation in his chest.

He immediately checked his profile, scrutinizing every post and picture. His feed was mostly harmless, but still, he felt a prickle of discomfort. He started deleting older posts, a wave of protectiveness washing over him.

He glanced at his phone, his jaw locked. He had a sudden urge to message Mr. Harrison and ask him why. He quickly dismissed the idea, he knew it would only escalate the situation.

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