"Seriously?" Mark slammed his phone down, the plastic case rattling on the desk. He hadn't even had a chance to finish his bagel. He stalked over to the window, staring out at the grey, rain-slicked street. The city seemed to mirror his mood, a bleak and unforgiving expanse. His shoulders slumped. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples. He'd been counting on that promotion. The thought that all that ambition was in vain made him want to scream.

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