The overhead fluorescent lights hummed, a monotonous drone that felt like it was drilling into Leo's skull. He drummed his fingers on the armrest of the uncomfortable chair. He hated waiting. Especially now.

He didn't want to be here. He really, really didn't. Yet, here he was. Facing the man who’d made his school years a misery. Who’d delighted in making him feel small.

The door to the office opened. The therapist, the bully, walked out. "Leo," he said, his voice measured and professional. Leo rose to his feet.

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