The cheerful music on the website grated on his nerves. He scrolled through the photos, each one a glossy, airbrushed lie. His old bedroom, where he'd spent countless hours plotting his escape, looked like a showroom.

He felt a familiar pressure building in his temples. He just wanted it to disappear. He thought about the new owners. Would they appreciate the history? Or would they just tear it all down and start again?

He slammed the laptop shut, the abrupt silence a small, temporary victory. He needed to get away from this. He needed fresh air.

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