“And the lake! It was *so* clear at Camp Blue Lagoon,” Emily said, her voice rising with enthusiasm. Frank just wanted to finish his spreadsheets. He sighed inwardly. He felt a tightening in his chest.

The office clock seemed to be moving in slow motion. Each tick echoed in his ears.

He drummed his fingers on the desk, a frantic beat that matched the rhythm of his thoughts. He needed to get out of this place.

He finally interrupted her. “That’s wonderful, Emily, really. But I have a lot of work to do. So, if you’ll excuse me…” he said, forcing a smile.

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