"Bold! Daring!" The praise was like acid on his skin. Alex, watching from the periphery of the room, felt a muscle twitch in his cheek. It was his music, his composition, butchered and re-imagined by an anonymous composer.

He felt a sudden, intense pressure in his chest. His hands clenched into fists. He wanted to shout, to object, to run screaming from the room.

He stood there, frozen, the distorted melodies assaulting his ears. He wanted nothing more than to erase every note, every chord, every single second of the abomination.

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