"Seriously?" Maya muttered under her breath, staring at the announcement tacked to the departmental bulletin board. Professor Chen, gone. The world seemed to be conspiring against her. She ripped the flyer from the board, crumpling it in her fist. The paper crackled and tore, mirroring the raw feeling inside. She had spent a year building a rapport with him, painstakingly learning his nuances, and now… well, now she felt like screaming.

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