The break room was a cacophony of noise. John was describing his wilderness survival skills from Camp Wilderness Ridge. Maria's head throbbed. She just wanted to be home.

She felt a tremor run down her spine. The constant chatter was oppressive.

He rambled on, completely oblivious to her discomfort. She grabbed a water bottle and, with a tight smile, said, “I think I'll go back to my desk.”

She swiftly turned, eager to escape.

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