The celebratory balloons bobbed in the corner of the office, a visual taunt. A knot formed in her throat as she heard her coworkers congratulating the successful candidate. The office felt small, claustrophobic. She wanted to scream.

She crumpled the piece of paper in her hands. The carefully crafted plan, the strategy, the countless hours of work... all for nothing. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes and clenched her fists.

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and walked out.

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