The hum of the server room was a low, constant drone, a backdrop to the building frustration that was steadily accumulating in Mark. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further. He'd spent weeks in this room, optimizing the code. Now, he was looking at the shared drive, and the similar structure of David's work. The meticulous files, nearly identical, sent a jolt of unpleasant surprise through him.

He slammed his fist against his desk. He walked over to David, his footsteps heavy.

"Care to explain this?" he managed, his voice a low growl.

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