He kicked a discarded water bottle across the parking lot, the plastic clattering against the concrete. Sixty-seven percent. Sixty-freaking-seven. Mark ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands until his scalp tingled. He hadn't even looked at the feedback yet. He couldn't. He couldn’t bear to read the professor's condescending comments. He’d practically lived in the lab for the past month, fueled by caffeine and desperation. It was a complete and utter waste of time. Every single minute. He wanted to scream.

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