The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, a constant, irritating drone. He felt a tightening in his chest. It had been his idea. He'd pitched the project. Now, the credit was being given to her. It wasn't fair.

He leaned back in his chair, feeling the cheap plastic creak beneath him. His palms began to sweat. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further.

He stood up, his legs feeling unsteady. He needed air, some space, away from the congratulatory handshakes and forced smiles.

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