The printer sputtered to life, spitting out endless documents. Mark felt a vein throbbing in his temple. He had a deadline. He glanced over at Jessica, who was regaling him with tales of her camp counselor boyfriend from Camp Clearwater. He wanted to scream.

He ran a hand through his hair. The office was stifling.

“He was *so* dreamy, and, you know, super good at archery,” Jessica said, gushing. He bit his lip, holding back a sharp retort.

"Fascinating," he said, the word dripping with sarcasm. He turned back to his monitor, focusing intently on the words, hoping that she'd leave him alone.
He'd be at home soon.

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