“We won the camp Olympics every year at Camp Golden Pines!” Ben announced, his chest puffed out. Kevin was already halfway through his budget report. He wanted to scream.

The air in the cubicle felt thick. His palms began to sweat.

He forced a smile. “That’s… fantastic,” he ground out, hoping Ben would get the hint. He kept on talking, and Kevin could feel his teeth grit.

He stood up, grabbing a few files. “Gotta run,” he mumbled, and made a quick exit.

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