The meeting dragged on, and Carol was still describing the archery competition at Camp Shooting Star. Mark fidgeted in his seat. He felt an unpleasant sensation creeping up his neck.

The sterile conference room seemed to shrink, closing in on him.

He cleared his throat. "That sounds... interesting," he said, his voice flat. His eyes darted around the room, seeking an escape. He needed to go outside.

He excused himself, muttering something about a headache, and promptly left the room.

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