The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to soothe the tension building in Ava’s shoulders. She slammed the laptop shut, the sudden sound echoing in the otherwise quiet library. Across the table, Ethan looked up, startled, his eyes widening. She’d meticulously crafted her research, painstakingly gathering data. Now, she looked at his open notebook and saw the same graphs, the same conclusions, the same absurdly specific footnotes.

A coldness spread through her. The library, usually a haven of calm, suddenly felt suffocating. She grabbed her bag with a little too much force.

“So, you’re… also writing about the migratory patterns of the lesser spotted newt?” she asked, her voice tight.

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